Adminv - adminstrative layouts made easy

Adminv is an administrative layout for Rails, which includes view helpers to make creating usable and pretty administrative console views a snap.

Really we just designed this for our own projects but figured others may benefit from the fruits of our labour.

Getting started

Start by adding the gem to your gemfile:

gem 'adminv'

Manual Dependency (Until gem is fixed):

gem 'css3buttons', '0.9.4'

Then you can run the generators to create the public assets:

$ rails g adminv:install
$ rails g css3buttons

This will add some images, stylesheets and javascripts to your /public directory. In addition, some view partials will be created under app/views/adminv which you can use to access the different sections of the layout.

Please note if you would like to update, or make changes to the CSS, we suggest you use the supplied overrides.css file. This way, any future updates we make, won't disturb your stuff (unless you want it to).

Why is there no layout?

The idea with adminv was to remove as much of the work as possible from creating an adminstrative console. As such, all the core structure for the layout is actually kept inside the gem, and the partials in app/views/adminv are how you can manage the content in each of the key spaces.

Also, it means that if we make any fundamental changes to the main layout - you can safely update without breaking your work

TODO: But I want to edit it! (Not yet Implemeted)

Understood! Generate away:

$ rails g adminv:layout

Which will copy the template into you your app/views/layouts directory.