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Welcome to the Active Admin wiki.

Guides

• Your First Admin Resource: AdminUser
• How to add instance variable for the Dashboard
• Add custom actions and buttons
• Auditing via paper_trail (change history)
• Creating dynamic scopes
• Enable and disable CRUD actions
• Specifiying locale
• How to modify pagination size
• Scoped index resource
• Set page title
• Add a menu entry for a collection action
• Define a resource inside an engine
• Use Spork
• How to disable sidebar
• Hide Default Actions or Sidebars
• Extend default controller methods

Forms

• Conditionally showing and hiding form fields
• Showing an uploaded image in the form
• Nested model form image upload
• CKEditor integration
• DatePicker in form partial

Integrating with CanCan

• How to work with cancan
• CanCan and forms
• Cancan and existing resource action items (buttons)
• Cancan and collection resource action items (buttons)
• Conditional Columns in the index page (CanCan)
• Enforce CanCan constraints

Integrating with other gems

• How to work with AASM