Rails Admin actions in model - ruby-on-rails-4

I have a sensitive civic involvement Rails app. In it's Rails Admin I have disabled the delete and bulk_delete actions.
In rails_admin.rb I have something like
RailsAdmin.config do |config|
config.actions do
dashboard # mandatory
index # mandatory
new
export
show
edit
# delete
# bulk_delete
end
end
How can I override this behaviour for specific models, for example, SitePosts? I have tried using the "rails_admin do" block in the model, but it is not working obviously.
rails_admin do
configure :site_post do
actions do
new
show
edit
delete
end
end
end

You can use the only method for enabling actions for specific models. For instance, in your rails_admin.rb:
config.actions do
dashboard # mandatory
index # mandatory
new
delete do
only SitePost
end
end
The only and except methods are documented in the wiki under Base action.

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Rails 4 Dynamically Generate an Extra Public-Facing URL on Create

I have a Rails app that stores stock photos in each project. Upon creating a project, I want the app to not only create the url for the project that we will view internally, which is projects#show,i.e. /projects/4 but I also want it to create another URL that we can show to the client that will be a little different. It will allow the to approve the photos, etc. I want the url to be something like /projects/st53d where the end of the url will be a random number generated with random_string = SecureRandom.urlsafe_base64(5)
This way, I can pass this url to the clients and they can view all the photos in the project and approve the ones they want us to use, but cannot change or view the other internal stuff we have on the standard product show page
Currently, I have added a client_url column to the Project model and I was thinking of generating the random number within the Project#create method and then saving it to the project's client_url column. This way I can loop through all client urls and make sure I did not generate a duplicate. But I cannot figure out how to do the route creation part.
i have yet to do the part where I check if it is random but I know how to do that, just not the route creation.
I was thinking I needed to create a new method which I named show_client and somehow create a route for that in my config/routes.rb file
class ProjectsController < ApplicationController
before_action :authenticate_user!, only: [:show,:index]
def create
#project = Project.create(project_params)
#project.creator = current_user.email
require 'securerandom'
random_string = SecureRandom.urlsafe_base64(5)
#project.client_url = random_string
#project.save
redirect_to #project
end
def show_client
#project = Project.find(params[:id])
#photos = #project.photos
end
This seems like more of a roles issue. You could check out something like CanCanCan. If you only need two kinds of users, you could also just add a boolean column for admin to your user table. The url extension doesn't seem to matter in the scope of your problem. If you want to use a different view for the visiting the user show page, something in the show action like:
unless current_user.admin?
redirect_to client_show(current_user.id)
end
I was able to figure it out.
I created the client_url column in the database and upon creating a project, in the create method of the projects_controller, I generated a random base64 number and assigned it to project.client_url
in routes.rb i did:
get 'projects/clients/:client_id' => 'projects#clients', as: 'projects_client'
in my projects_controller.rb:
def clients
#project = Project.where(client_id: params[:client_id])
end
then the link to that route is:
<%= link_to 'Client Version', projects_client_path(#project.client_url) %>

Routing to Controller in ActiveAdmin 1.0.0

rake routes gives the output
POST /admin/users(.:format) admin/users/new
But where is the new action executed? The /admin/user is the registered resource. There are no actions. However creating a new user through the standard AA form puts my user in the database but which controller is used?
UPDATE:
I want to create a new user using ActiveAdmin with a password and store the hashed password using devise. The new action works in my normal user controller which i test through rails console
#user=User.create(params.permit(:name, :phone, :active, :password_digest
#user.password = Devise.friendly_token
So far i hacked the action in the AA user.rb resource like this:(basically the same statements encapsulated in controller do...)
controller do
def new
#user.password = Devise.friendly_token
#user=User.create(params.permit(:name, :phone, :active, :password_digest
The Issue i have now it that the user gets saved in my db but with an unshashed password.(?)
The live demo and the documentation are a bit short on detailed information or examples on this issue.
ActiveAdmin uses inherited resources gem for the default controller actions. If you want to overwrite the new controller action, you can overwrite it in your activeadmin resource code like so:
ActiveAdmin.register User do
controller do
def new
super #use the default methods and response block
#user.activate! #if you want to add some methods
end
end
end
The ActiveAdmin Gem creates a Admin::UsersController on the fly, based on the configuration of you admin/user.rb

rails_admin authentication with user's boolean admin

I am currently using rails 4.2.0beta4 with devise. In my schema, my user had boolean :admin default:false. After installing rails_admin, for the time being, every user is allowed to go to my /admin. But how do I make it so that only the users with boolean is_admin? true people log in?
Should I just do rails generate devise admin? Would that be quicker choice than having to configure again?
Thanks in advance.
I'd create an admin namespace...
1 - In routes.rb
namespace :admin do
resources :your_routes
end
2 - Make sure the following directories exist; app/views/admin, app/controllers/admin, and put any controllers and view templates that you want to restrict to admins in those folders.
3 - Add this to application_controller.rb
def user_is_admin?
signed_in? && current_user.is_admin?
end
4 - Then in any controller inside your app/controllers/admin add a before_filter to check
some_controller.rb
class Admin::YourController < ApplicationController
before_filter :user_is_admin?
end
For what it's worth, you don't have to namespace if you don't want to. You could technically just add the before_filter from steps 3 and 4 to whatever action you want to protect, but I think the namespace is a better idea in the long run.

Rails 4 - Column exists but does not update

I have recently added a field "tag" to my blog app built in Rails 4. Below you can see the field appearing in the Edit view:
But once I return to the Show view after editing, this does not appear:
When I check the database directly I can definitely see it exists:
sqlite> PRAGMA table_info(POSTS);
0|id|INTEGER|1||1
1|title|varchar(255)|0||0
2|body|text|0||0
3|created_at|datetime|0||0
4|updated_at|datetime|0||0
5|slug|varchar(255)|0||0
6|tag|varchar(255)|0||0
Can anyone suggest what is going on or how to troubleshoot this?
Rails 4 uses strong parameters by default. This means you have to explicitly whitelist params you wish to mass assign.
When adding a new attribute to a model, you have to remember to update the permitted params in you controller.
For example, in your case, you would need to make sure :tags are added like so:
class PostController < ActionController::Base
def update
post = Post.find(params[:id])
post.update(post_params)
redirect_to post
end
private
def post_params
params.require(:post).permit(:title, :body, :tag)
end
end

How would I change this to prevent numerous queries against the database to check the user role?

Last Updated: 29 Aug 2013 18:54 EST
I have the following module defined and then included into my model. I am using the rolify gem to give my users roles.
module Permissions::Offer
extend ActiveSupport::Concern
included do
# `user` is a context of security
protect do |user, offer|
# Admins can retrieve anything
if user.has_role? :administrator
scope { all }
# ... and view, create, update, or destroy anything
can :view
can :create
can :update
can :destroy
elsif user.present?
# Allow to read any field
can :view
can :create
# Checks offered_by_id keeping possible nil in mind
# Allow sellers to modify/delete their own offers
if offer.try(:offered_by_id) == user.id
can :update
can :destroy
end
else
# Guests can't read the text
cannot :view
end
end
end
end
What I am experiencing is that when I do the following...
respond_with Offer.restrict!(current_user)
It queries the roles table for every offer that is returned. Is there anyway to have it not make this request repeatedly when requesting a list of offers? I'm sure I could cache the response to avoid the database hit, but I'd rather it not hit the cache either.
If I open a rails console and do the following I get the same result:
current_user = User.first
Offer.restrict!(current_user).to_a
I have installed the bullet gem to see if it considers it an N+1 query, and it doesn't not detect it. I believe because the included gets called every time a new instance of offer gets created it fires off this call to verify permissions. That coupled with the fact that rolify does not cache it's user role checks for any length of time makes this less than ideal. I suppose rolify does this to allow for the changing of roles on the fly without having to deal with clearing the cache. As of now the only way I can see to solve this is to implement caching of my own.
I opened an issue with rolify to see if they are interested in creating a more permanent solution. For anyone else that encounters this, here's what I did int eh meantime.
def has_role?(role)
roles = Rails.cache.fetch(roles_for: { object_id: self.object_id }, expires_in: 10.seconds, race_condition_ttl: 2.seconds) { self.roles.map(&:name) }
roles.include?(role)
end
This doesn't do everything the real method does.. but it suits my purposes.
Here is a link to the source for anyone that wishes to implement something like this on all the methods.
https://github.com/EppO/rolify/blob/master/lib/rolify/role.rb