active_admin, nested routes and custom view

Question

i just start playing with active_admin, I have 2 resources:

class Category < ActiveRecord::Base
  validates :name, :presence => true
  has_many :auctions  
end

and

class Auction < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :category
end

under app/admin I have auctions.rb and categories.rb

ActiveAdmin.register Auction do
end
ActiveAdmin.register Category do
end

my questions are:

in order to show all the auctions for a given category what should i do to generate the nested resource for it? (/admin/categories/1/auctions)
in my frontend i have to show all the auctions without the admin/ prefix, basically I need this http://local/auctions available, I tried to add in the routes.rb the directive resources :auctions but I need to generare a new auctions controller outside the admin/ scope. Is this a good way to take?

Thank you

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 19 '12 at 16:02

First, what you could do, is to place this activeadmin directive in the 'register' block

ActiveAdmin.register Auction do
  belongs_to :auction
end

And second; that is indeed the right way. Create a separate auctions controller outside the admin scope. Good luck.

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