README

Base Model
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Rails code for creating customizable CMS's.

Expectations:

# Your project is rails 3.1 and has kaminari, twitter bootstrap, simple form, jquery
# Your project has a admin namespace and a base Admin::AdminController
# Your models have attr_accessible ... :as => :admin
# You use the simple form initializer to set up simple form bootstrap html structure

Sample Controller Example
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Routes

    namespace :admin do
      resources :messages
    end

Controller:

    class Admin::MessagesController < Admin::BaseModelController
      def model_class
        Message
      end

      def index_columns
        ['body','created_at']
      end

      def default_order
        "created_at DESC"
      end
    end

Overriding
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Override views by creating a view directory for the controller and placing a partial or view file in the directory (index/new/edit/_form etc.)
Override controller methods by implementing them in the controller. For example to replace the search:

    def search
      query = User

      unless params[:search].blank?
        first_name, last_name = params[:search].split(/\s+/)
        query = query.joins(:employer)
        q = "%#{first_name.strip}%"
        if first_name && last_name
          query = query.where(["(users.first_name LIKE ? AND users.last_name LIKE ?) OR employers.name LIKE ?", q, "%#{last_name.strip}%", "%#{first_name} #{last_name}%"])
        elsif first_name
          query = query.where(["users.first_name LIKE ? OR users.last_name LIKE ? OR users.email LIKE ? OR employers.name LIKE ?", q, q, q, q])
        end
      end
 
      query = query.page(params[:page]) if params[:format] != "csv"
      @users = query.order(order_sql(params))
    end