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A rails_admin alternative dashboard. It overrides the default dashboard component.

Features:

• last 3 records for each model (useful to reach the last items easily)

• Google Analytics widget embed if enabled

• admin notices if enabled (to show informations to the users)

• auditing / history table if enabled

• no breadcrump and nav tabs on the dashboard

• no counters progress bars (minor performance improvement)

Demo: heroku app

• Add the gem to Gemfile (after rails_admin gem): gem 'rails_admin_mydash'

• Execute bundle

This feature allows the access to Analytics data only after signing in with an enabled Google account.

To enable Google Analytics follow this guide: Google Analytics Embed API

• In console create a new project

• In console API enable Analytics API

• In console credentials create an OAuth client ID, options: web application, authorized origins: add your admin host (es. http://www.myadmindomain.abc)

• Insert the client ID in rails_admin config:

# In config.actions block:
dashboard do
  ga_key 'XXX.apps.googleusercontent.com'
  ga_chart_id 'ga:YYYYYYYYY'
  ga_start_date '60daysAgo'
  ga_end_date '30daysAgo'
  ga_metrics 'ga:sessions,ga:pageviews'
end

Options:

• ga_key: required - CLIENT_ID parameter (obtained from Google API Client Libraries - ID client OAuth 2.0)

• ga_chart_id: optional - chart to show, if not specified the selector is shown

• ga_start_date: optional - starting date, default: '30daysAgo'

• ga_end_date: optional - ending date, default: 'yesterday'

• ga_metrics: optional - type of data to show, default: 'ga:sessions'

• Create and apply a migration:

rails g migration CreateAdminNotices message:string published:boolean

• Create a model AdminNotice

• Enable the option in rails_admin config:

# In config.actions block:
dashboard do
  admin_notices 'AdminNotice'
end

• Add some messages: AdminNotice.new( message: 'Just a test', published: true ).save

• admin_notices [String]: model to use to show admin messages

• ga_key [String], ga_chart_id [String], ga_start_date [String], ga_end_date [String], ga_metrics [String]: see Google Analytics section above

• last_records [Integer]: number of records to show per model

• models [String array]: list of models to show (es. ['Category', 'Post', 'Tag'])

• For each record to show a name field or method is used

• Mattia Roccoberton - creator, maintainer