Rails Admin routes inside config - ruby-on-rails

Question

I'm using Rails Admin for my admin area.
The sidebar panel should have some links to the instances of a model.
In rails_admin.rb I've tried something like:
RailsAdmin.config do |config|
#navigation_links = Hash[*Conference.all.map {|conference| [conference.name, bindings[:view].main_app.show_path(model_name: 'conference', id: conference.id)]}.flatten]
config.navigation_static_links = #navigation_links
end
However, here I do not have access to bindings. So, how can I get the url of an admin resource here? I cannot see it in the documentation
Thanks

Answer 1

My answer probably not what you want to do, but it can be helpful.
I've checked rails_admin.gem and i found that there are two methods that responsible for rendering sidebar menu.
def main_navigation
nodes_stack = RailsAdmin::Config.visible_models(controller: controller)
node_model_names = nodes_stack.collect { |c| c.abstract_model.model_name }
nodes_stack.group_by(&:navigation_label).collect do |navigation_label, nodes|
nodes = nodes.select { |n| n.parent.nil? || !n.parent.to_s.in?(node_model_names) }
li_stack = navigation nodes_stack, nodes
label = navigation_label || t('admin.misc.navigation')
%(<li class='dropdown-header'>#{capitalize_first_letter label}</li>#{li_stack}) if li_stack.present?
end.join.html_safe
end
Method above responsible for getting list of models, especially:
nodes_stack = RailsAdmin::Config.visible_models(controller: controller)
Second method responsible for rendering item in the menu (aka li):
def navigation(nodes_stack, nodes, level = 0)
nodes.collect do |node|
model_param = node.abstract_model.to_param
url = url_for(action: :index, controller: 'rails_admin/main', model_name: model_param)
level_class = " nav-level-#{level}" if level > 0
nav_icon = node.navigation_icon ? %(<i class="#{node.navigation_icon}"></i>).html_safe : ''
li = content_tag :li, data: {model: model_param} do
link_to nav_icon + capitalize_first_letter(node.label_plural), url, class: "pjax#{level_class}"
end
li + navigation(nodes_stack, nodes_stack.select { |n| n.parent.to_s == node.abstract_model.model_name }, level + 1)
end.join.html_safe
end
So you can patch this methods to get what you need.
module RailsAdmin
module ApplicationHelper
def main_navigation
# your code
end
end
end
rails_admin.gem module
P.S. I love what you can read from rails doctrine about monkey patching:
This power has frequently been derided as simply too much for mere
mortal programmers to handle.