Question

Active Admin Dashboard

  ActiveAdmin.register_page "Dashboard" do

  menu :priority => 1, :label => proc{ I18n.t("active_admin.dashboard") }

  content :title => proc{ I18n.t("active_admin.dashboard") } do

    section h2 "Top Movie" do

            table_for @top_ps.where('ptype = ?', 'movie') do |t|

               column("Title"){|p| link_to p.title, admin_program_path(p.id)}

               column "Start" do |p|

                    p.program_schedules.each do |schedule|

                            link_to distance_of_time_in_words(Time.now, schedule.start,true), admin_program_schedule_path(schedule.id)
                    end

                end


            end
        end

  end # content
end

If I run this i get

[#<ProgramSchedule id: 746, program_id: 430, start: "2012-09-17 09:30:00", stop: "2012-09-17 10:30:00">, 
#<ProgramSchedule id: 8124, program_id: 430, start: "2012-09-22 23:30:00", stop: "2012-09-23 00:30:00">]

Instead of

<a href="/path">Start</a>
<a href="/path">Start</a>

I understand where I am wrong, but how to execute that code inside a block?

Answer 1

This template DSL is called Arbre. I’m not sure if it’s used much outside of ActiveAdmin. With the release of ActiveAdmin 0.5.0 it’s been split off into it’s own gem https://github.com/gregbell/arbre

If you don’t want to deal with it you can render a partial. So in your dashboard code put something like

section h2, "Top Movie" do
  div do
    render :partial => "admin/dashboard/top_movie"
  end
end

And then

# /views/admin/dashboard/_top_movie.html.erb

<div style="width:300px;">
  Normal arbitrary view code. <%=some_ruby%>
</div>