Acts_as_snook - Creating an admin panel

Posted over 3 years ago by Philip Ingram

Well, I’m going to try something a little different with this post. I’ll just post some code and explain one or two things that are out of the ordinary, instead of going through a full blow by blow account of it all.

Creating an Admin Panel for Acts As Snook

I basically needed to manage my comments and the resulting spam that is associated with having a blog on the interwebs. I haven’t created one as of yet, so here it is.

The stone cold facts of what i did

Simply put, i used my existing Admin Namespace to include a Comments Controller which listed all of the spam, ham and moderate comments available to me, through acts_as_snook .

Now, acts_as_snook has these methods which can update a Comment record from one status to another. E.g., spam to ham. Sometimes acts_as_snook can’t decide whether it’s spam or ham, so it goes into a moderate status and this is when those methods really shine.

The code…

Fix your routes by adding:

  
map.namespace :admin do |admin|
    admin.resources :comments, :member => {:ham_it => :get, :spam_it => :get}
  end

Next create an Admin::CommentsController and add:

class Admin::CommentsController < ApplicationController
  before_filter :get_comment, :except => :index
  def index
    @spam = Comment.spam
    @ham = Comment.ham
    @moderate = Comment.moderate
  end

def destroy
@comment.destroy
respond_to do |format|
format.html { redirect_to(admin_comments_url) }
format.xml  { head :ok }
end
end
#change to ham
def ham_it
@comment.ham!
respond_to do |format|
format.html { redirect_to(admin_comments_url) }
format.xml  { head :ok }
end
end
#change to spam
def spam_it
@comment.spam!
respond_to do |format|
format.html { redirect_to(admin_comments_url) }
format.xml  { head :ok }
end
end
protected
def get_comment
@comment = Comment.find(params[:id])
end
end

Finally we need a view to use, so why not add something like this:

<h1>Ham Comments (the good ones)</h1>


		
 in  :  ‘Are you sure?’, :method => :delete %> | 
		

Moderate Comments (the iffy ones)

		
 in post # :  | 
		

Spam Comments (the bad ones)

		
 in post # :  ‘Are you sure?’, :method => :delete %> | 
		

Remember, your Comment model schema may vary, but it’s probably similar.

Conclusion

Enjoy. I didn’t bore you with much other content then what was needed. This approach of course can be used to create any kind of admin moderation in an admin namespace.

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