Using table_for with HTML elements in Active Admin

Ah yes another foray into ActiveAdmin. Recently I needed to use the table_for feature on a show page and add some html options to it. This required looking into the code itself as the documentation was not exactly clear in either ActiveAdmin or Arbre. Essentially you need to do something like this:

    table_for agent.quotes, {:id => 'agent_quotes'} do
      column 'Quote Number' do |quote|
        quote.slug
      end
      column 'Business' do |quote|
        quote.business.name
      end
      column 'Status' do |quote|
        quote.state
      end
      column '' do |quote|
        link_to 'View Quote', admin_quote_path(quote.id)
      end
    end

It was as simple as adding a hash with the needed items after the collection for the table_for:

table_for collection, {:id => 'html_id', :class => 'html_class'}

Uploading CSV files to a Rails Application using ActiveAdmin

Recently I had try and upload CSV files to a rails application via Active Admin. I had the inkling that maybe I was not the first to have done this. A short google search later and I was lead to this answer on Stack Overflow

I loved it except for the processing class listed under csv_db. It seemed too limiting in that it requires EVERY column to be there whether data is present or not. I recalled a Railscast that offered up a much more flexible solution and created this:

require 'csv'
class CsvDb
  class << self
    def convert_save(model_name, csv_data)
      begin
        target_model = model_name.classify.constantize
        CSV.foreach(csv_data.path, :headers => true) do |row|
          target_model.create(row.to_hash)
        end
      rescue Exception => e
        Rails.logger.error e.message
        Rails.logger.error e.backtrace.join("\n")
      end
    end
  end
end

If you replace the code from the Stackoverflow post in csv_db with this you should be able to load any number of columns you wish. As soon as I figure out the updating of existing records I will post a follow-up.