Reusing sofa's admin area

If you wish, you can re-use Sofa's admin area for things you need to administer in your application. To do this, first you will need to make your admin controllers to inherit from CmsAdmin::BaseController. This way, your admin views will be using Sofa's admin layout and it's basic HttpAuth.

class Admin::CategoriesController < CmsAdmin::BaseController
  # your code goes here
end

From your views you can use cms_form_for method to re-use Sofa's FormBuilder. There are also some existing styles for tables, will_paginate helpers, etc. Take a look in app/assets/stylesheets/comfortable_mexican_sofa/content.css

You will probably want to add a navigation link on the left side, and for that you will want to use ViewHook functionality. Create a partial that has a link to your admin area and declare in Sofa's initializer: ComfortableMexicanSofa::ViewHooks.add(:navigation, '/admin/navigation'). Similarly you can add extra stylesheets, etc into admin area in the same way.