Manage the views generated in rails admin

Question

I am currently doing a project and the gems that I've used are: devise, rails admin and cancancan.. The codes below will add the CRUD and also a default views/page

Ability.rb

class Ability
  include CanCan::Ability
  def initialize(user)


    alias_action :create, :read, :update, :destroy, to: :crud

    if user.role == 'admin'
        can :read, [xxxx]
        can :crud, [xxxx]

        can :access, :rails_admin 
        can :dashboard  
    end

  end

end

Question: Where can I find the view or page? So that I can edit the view/s

Answer 1

The Ability class is where all user permissions are defined, it does not add default views. devise comes with default views packaged within the gem. In order to customize those views, you would have to run the following command:

rails generate devise:views

This command copies all devise views to your application under your_app/app/views/devise folder. You should be able to customize specific views from there. Also, link to configure devise views for your reference.

UPDATE

Rails_admin documentation suggests that they are strongly encouraging making edits to the dashboard views via the DSL. A few examples for your reference: #1, #2.

rails_admin views reside packaged in the gem here. If you absolutely need to add a lot of customizations that cannot be done using DSL then add similar view structure to your app. For eg: to customize dashboard view, create your_app/app/views/rails_admin/main/dashboard.html.erb and write your own dashboard view.