ActiveAdmin Sidebar

Manipulate sidebar position and add collapsible sidebar support for ActiveAdmin 3.x.

Install

Add to your Gemfile:

gem 'active_admin_sidebar'

Using assets via Sprockets

Add to app/assets/stylesheets/active_admin.scss:

@import "active_admin_sidebar";

Add to app/assets/javascripts/active_admin.js:

//= require active_admin_sidebar

Using assets via NPM

$ npm i @activeadmin-plugins/active_admin_sidebar

$ yarn add @activeadmin-plugins/active_admin_sidebar

Add to app/assets/javascripts/active_admin.js:

import '@activeadmin-plugins/active_admin_sidebar';

Add to app/assets/stylesheets/active_admin.scss:

@import '@activeadmin-plugins/active_admin_sidebar';

Configuration per resource

Change sidebar position with before_action:

# app/admin/posts.rb
ActiveAdmin.register Post do
  before_action only: [:index] do
    left_sidebar!
  end
end

# app/admin/comments.rb
ActiveAdmin.register Comment do
  before_action do
    right_sidebar!
  end
end

Global configuration

Move sidebar to the left for all resources in config/initializers/active_admin.rb:

ActiveAdmin.setup do |config|
  config.before_action do
    left_sidebar! if respond_to?(:left_sidebar!)
  end
end

Collapsible sidebar

Add a toggle button to collapse/expand the sidebar. State is persisted per-resource across page navigations.

# Collapsible sidebar (starts expanded)
left_sidebar!(collapsible: true)
right_sidebar!(collapsible: true)

# Collapsible sidebar (starts collapsed)
left_sidebar!(collapsible: true, start_collapsed: true)
right_sidebar!(collapsible: true, start_collapsed: true)