To split, or not to split, that's a question

Rails
1

Hi,

I’m working on a Rails application. Recently my client is asking for an
admin portal, which should be able to manage ticket as the one for the
original one, and have some admin specific features additionally. And
their authentications are different, the user portal uses Devise, while
the admin portal uses basic HTTP authentication. My intuition prefers to
create a standalone Rails project for admin portal, but they do share
something like model, and forms. I’m worrying that split the project
would break DRY. Does anyone can give me some advices? Thanks.

Best regards,
Zhi-Qiang L.
[email protected]

2

Hi,

maybe you could create a Rails Engine.

Take a loot at the Railscasts site

Best Regards,

Everaldo

3

Hey man, why your admin namespace is using http basic authentication? I
think the best thing you can do is use devise with cancan to handle with
authorization in your application.

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4

Because there is only on admin, and his account will not be in database,
and he wants the ability to manage everything.

On Jul 21, 2012, at 1:24 PM, thiagocifani wrote:

Take a loot at the Railscasts site
#277 Mountable Engines - RailsCasts
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5

And about the admin portal feature, you shows set every resource to a
namespace called admin. Your routes will look like something like:

namespace :admin do
resources :tickets
end

So you should set up a controller inside the namespace admin:

Class Admin::TicketsController < Application Controller

end

Hope this helps you!

Regards

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6

Thanks, I thought about that. But in this way Admin::TicketsController
still cannot share some views of TicketsController well. And due to the
name convention, when I use form builder with a ticket, it will use the
ticket path without admin prefix defaultly.

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Ok! I got it! no problem so on! You can just use devise + cancan and set
some specific links in the view that will only shows up if the user is a
admin or the other role.

What you thing about that?

thanks

2012/7/21 Zhi-Qiang L. [email protected]

namespace :admin do
Hope this helps you!

Zhi-Qiang L.

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