Just to expand on that, you modify the controllers for each so that only the appropriate actions are available. For instance, for front controllers that shouldn't be editing you might want:
auto_action :read_only Which will give just an index method and a show method. On Aug 24, 9:48 am, Henry Baragar <[email protected]> wrote: > On August 24, 2010 11:35:40 am Scorpio wrote: > > > I've been working to create an admin subsite. The reason I'm starting > > a new thread on this yet again is the fact that I do not get any > > errors simply the effect is not what I've expected and I need advice > > on how to fix it > > OK > > > I flowed the Rapid rails chapter through analogy with Product and > > Category model resources and it all works fine and dandy but I'd like > > the user to see a Categories tab as well and yet have an explicit > > admin subsite for editing. > > To which user are you referring? An "application user" or an "admin user"? > The basic idea is that the "application user" does everything through the > front site and the "admin users" does everything through the "admin site". > > > (It's good that the products tab got hidden all the way because I > > don't want to view by product on the user end). How do I make it so > > that view is still on the user front and edit is on the admin front > > while keeping the code DRY ? > > If the "application user" never edits the product, then the edit page only > needs to be in the admin site. > > If you want a custom tag (e.g. view-page for Product) to be used by both the > "application user" and the "admin user", then define/extend the tag in the > app/views/taglibs/application.dryml. Any tag that is only for the > "application user" should be put into app/views/taglibs/front.dryml; and, any > tag that is only for the "admin user" should be put into > app/views/taglibs/admin.dryml. > > Hope this helps. > > Henry > > > Thanks in advance (oh my I've been asking a lot of questions lately) > > -- > Henry Baragar > Instantiated Software -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Hobo Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hobousers?hl=en.
