How do I edit or override the footer of ActiveAdmin?

Question

How do I edit or override the footer of Active_Admin?

Answer 1

Newer version of ActiveAdmin provides configurable option to set footer.

ActiveAdmin Footer Customization

config.footer = "MyApp Revision v1.3"

Footer can be configured using proc, where you can even render partial.

ActiveAdmin Footer Customization using proc

config.footer = proc { "Enjoy MyApp Revision 123, #{controller.current_admin_user.try(:email)}!" }

PR which added the ability to customize the footer

Answer 2

If all you want to do is change or delete the 'powered by' message, what you can do is change its value in a locale file. Example, edit config/locales/en.yml

And use something like this:

en:                                                                              
  active_admin:                                                                  
    powered_by: "Powered by hamsters"

Why this works:

The default locale for a rails app is english, the en locale file.

Answer 3

Between v1.0.4pre and v.1.0.5pre, the previous method of overriding Footer#build no longer works well, and the new API is

ActiveAdmin.application.footer = proc {
  ...
}

Answer 4

From gist create file in lib/footer.rb

class Footer < ActiveAdmin::Component
  def build
    super :id => "footer"
    span "My Awesome footer"
  end
end

add to initializers/active_admin.rb

ActiveAdmin.setup do |config|
 ......some config here....

  config.view_factory.footer = Footer

 ......some config here....
end

Answer 5

Answer:

In your rails app, create this file: app/admin/footer.rb

The content would be something like:

module ActiveAdmin
  module Views
    class Footer < Component

      def build
        super :id => "footer"                                                    
        super :style => "text-align: right;"                                     

        div do                                                                   
          small "Cool footer #{Date.today.year}"                                       
        end
      end

    end
  end
end

Don't forget! restart the app/server.

Any ActiveAdmin layout component can be customized like this.

More about it:

Why does it work? This is Ruby's magic sauce. We are reopening the definition of the Footer class and changing it for our custom content.

Is it totally customizable? I don't know. This is the inheritance path:

ActiveAdmin

class Component < Arbre::Component
class Footer < Component

Arbre

class Component < Arbre::HTML::Div

This means that we can use Arbre's DSL directly.

Answer 6

For v.1.0.0.pre5 I found that the Accepted Answer requires a small additiion, namely adding a variable to build as below:

module ActiveAdmin
  module Views
    class Footer < Component

      def build (namespace)
        super :id => "footer"                                                    
        super :style => "text-align: right;"                                     

        div do                                                                   
          small "Cool footer #{Date.today.year}"                                       
        end
      end

    end
  end
end