Namespaced dashboards for different level of administrations

[DavidGeismarLtd]

• What would you like to be able to do? Can you provide some examples? Is it possible at the moment to handle different levels of administration ? Say I want an admin with it's set of specific dashboards and a super_admin with it's own set of routes, dashboards and resources ?

At the moment, if I already have an administrate setup for admins, generating rails generate administrate:install --namespace=super_admin for super admins seem to overwrite my current dashboards in app/dashboards, I would like my dashboards to be namespaced, so I can handle this scenario

[pablobm]

Thank you for the feedback. I'm aware of this issue, and I'm afraid it doesn't have an easy solution. It's something I'd like to look into in the future, but it will be a while before that.

A workaround would be to host these two separate admins as separate applications altogether. It's probably a bit of work, but with the right setup you could be running them off the same code, with some if/etc in place to avoid duplication.

[brenoperucchi]

Any solution for this?

[brenoperucchi]

made this solution but I didn't test in all conditions

#config/route.rb
  namespace :control do
    resources :accounts
  end

#app/controllers/control/accounts_controller.rb
class AccountsController < Admin::ApplicationController
    def dashboard
      @dashboard ||= Control::AccountDashboard.new
    end
end

#/lib/base.rb 
module Administrate
  module Page
    class Base
        def resource_name
          @resource_name =
            dashboard.class.to_s.scan(/(.+)Dashboard/).first.first.underscore.gsub("control/", "")
        end 
     end
  end
end

#app/dashboards/control/account_dashboard.rb
# different attributes for account_dashboard for same resource account

#app/controllers/admin/application_controller.rb
require 'base'

[brenoperucchi]

I know this is a code smell, but it's working

#lib/administrate/base_dashboard.rb

...
module Administrate
  class BaseDashboard
    include Administrate
    def permitted_attributes
      form_attributes.map do |attr|
        attribute_types[attr].permitted_attribute(
          attr,
          # resource_class: self.class.model,
          resource_class: self.class.to_s.gsub("Control::", "").constantize.model,
        )
      end.uniq
    end

[pablobm]

@brenoperucchi - I think you are generally on the right track. At the moment Administrate doesn't support this, but it could be fixed by going through the code addressing all situations where assumptions are made about the namespace and location of the dashboards. The sort of changes that you are proposing could be made into Administrate.

[brenoperucchi]

https://github.com/brenoperucchi/administrate/tree/main_imentore

I have been using this solution for a while to add one more namespace. I have not covered all administrate codes but works to my use.

this is the major updates: https://github.com/brenoperucchi/administrate/commit/e8ff7594d3afff3e44ceb13747f9b739ba4c4669

[pablobm]

Closing in favour of https://github.com/thoughtbot/administrate/issues/1764