Creating default admin pages

Using the generator

Super comes with generators for generating admin routes and controllers.

bin/rails g super:resource product

That’ll update the routes file and generate a controller file like below:

class Admin::ProductsController < AdminController
  class Controls < AdminControls
    def model
      Product
    end
  end
end

Let’s start the rails server and browse over to http://localhost:3000/admin/products and see what the defaults look like.

The index view:

The show view:

The edit view:

Let’s create the rest of the admin pages too.

bin/rails g super:resource customer
bin/rails g super:resource subscription
bin/rails g super:resource receipt

The generated routes

You may have noticed that http://localhost:3000/admin gives you a 404 error. You can create something like a Admin::HomeController and customize it to your liking, but for now, let’s redirect it to a reasonable page. I’ll make it redirect to the customers page.

Rails.application.routes.draw do
  namespace :admin do
    resources :receipts
    resources :subscriptions
    resources :customers
    resources :products

    root to: redirect(path: "/admin/customers", status: 302)
  end
  # For details on the DSL available within this file, see https://guides.rubyonrails.org/routing.html
end

While we’re here, let’s change the order of the resources. Super uses the order of the routes to build the navigation links. And lastly, I’m gonna remove the comment.

Rails.application.routes.draw do
  namespace :admin do
    resources :customers
    resources :subscriptions
    resources :receipts
    resources :products

    root to: redirect(path: "/admin/customers", status: 302)
  end
end