Plugin functionality to add generic import to Rails Admin interface
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First, add to Gemfile:
gem "rails_admin_import", :git => "git://github.com/stephskardal/rails_admin_import.git"
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Next, mount in your application by adding following line to your config/routes.rb:
mount RailsAdminImport::Engine => '/rails_admin_import', :as => 'rails_admin_import'
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Add to cancan to allow access to import in your app/models/ability.rb:
can :import, [User, Model1, Model2]
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Define configuration in config/initializers/rails_admin.rb:
RailsAdminImport.config do |config| config.model User do excluded_fields do [:field1, :field2, :field3] end label :name extra_fields do [:field3, :field4, :field5] end end end
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(Optional) Define instance methods to be hooked into the import process, if special/additional processing is required on the data:
# some model def before_import_save(row, map) self.set_permalink self.import_nested_data(row, map) end
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"import" action must be added inside config.actions block in main application RailsAdmin configuration: config/initializers/rails_admin.rb.
config.actions do ... import ... end
Refer to RailAdmin documentation on custom actions that must be present in this block.
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TODO: Right now, import doesn't work for fields ending in s, because inflector fails in models ending in s singularly. Belongs_to and many mapping needs to be updated to use klasses instead of symbols
- Testing
Copyright (c) 2011 End Point & Steph Skardal. See LICENSE.txt for further details.