Lollipop

The Most Configurable, Testable, Non-Magical Rails Admin Framework

The Rails admin framework you'll want to lick

Features

• Minimal setup
• You already know how to customize it – we don't need no stinkin' DSL
• It's hecka responsive up in here

Getting Started

Installation

# Gemfile
gem 'lollipop'

Install routes

# config/routes.rb
mount Lollipop::Engine => '/admin', :as => 'lollipop'

Create resource controllers

For every resource you want to admin, create a controller.

# app/controllers/admin/comments_controller.rb
Admin::CommentsController < Lollipop::BaseController
end

Admin::CommentsController < ApplicationController
  lollipop
end

Boom

Lollipop is up and running.

Customizing the views

We already have a DSL to describe our views. They're called templating languages. You probably already know some.

Just create the custom views like you already do. Use lollipop's helpers. Or don't! Fuck lollipop. It's your app.

Use your favorite templating language. Lollipop don't care.

Index

# app/views/admin/comments/index.html.haml
= collection_table do
  = column :id
  = column :author
  = column :created_at

Show

# app/views/admin/comments/show.html.haml
= attributes_table do
  = row :id
  = row :author, :label => 'Who?'
  = row :body do
    %span.sexy= @comment.body
  %tr
    %th Date
    %td= @comment.created_at.to_s(:long)

Forms

It's straight up formtastic, yo.

# app/views/admin/comments/_form.html.haml
= form do |f|
  = f.input :author
  = f.input :body
  = f.input :created_at

Customizing the Layout

# config/initializers/lollipop.rb
Lollipop.setup do |config|
  config.layout = 'my_layout_is_better'
end

Want to start with lollipop's default layout and have your way with it? No problem.

$ rails generate lollipop:layout
# generates app/views/layouts/lollipop.html.haml

Customizing Filters

Simple

# app/views/admin/comments/_filter_fields.html.haml
= filter :id
= filter :author

Fancy

Uses ransack.

Customizing Exports

Testing

Yeah, test the shit out your customizations.

Guess what? You already know how. Just add your run of the mill controller spec.

# spec/controllers/admin/comments_controller_spec.rb
require 'spec_helper'

describe Admin::CommentsController do
  it "does awesome stuff"
end

It helps to know

• inherited_resources / responders?
• formtastic
• meta_search / ransack
• cancan
• bootstrap

Copyright

Copyright (c) 2012 Kasima Tharnpipitchai. See LICENSE.txt for further details.