Question

I am using rails_admin and I liked it very much. The only problem is that it is coupled with devise for authentication, but my whole app is implementing authlogic.
Ain’t there any way to remove devise so that I can switch to my existing authlogic authentication. I googled it but couldn’t find 🙁
Regards;
Kshitiz

Answer 1

I don’t know about removing devise, it seems to be a requirement for installing rails_admin. So you need to install it even if you don’t use it.

But you can make rails_admin use authlogic for authentication and authorization like so.

• In your config/initializers folder, create a new file calls rails_admin.rb
• Put the following inside the file (note that I used nifty_generators so I have some helper methods available to me like logged_in? etc. You might need to use the equivalent methods in your setup):
• Now restart your server!

Code:

RailsAdmin.authenticate_with{
  unless logged_in?
    session[:return_to] = request.url
    redirect_to login_url, :alert => "You must first log in or sign up before accessing this page."
  end
}

RailsAdmin.authorize_with{
  redirect_to root_path, :alert => "You are not authorized to access that page" unless current_user.admin? #or whatever you use for checking admins
}