Add custom items at header menu in ActiveAdmin

Question

I want to add a link like link_to (\"Edit yout profile\", edit_user (current_user)) at header in ActiveAdmin. Is that possible ?!

Answer 1

For recent versions of active admin, there are two solutions, both kind of unfortunate.

Any of your Resources with menu false can be set to menu label: "Google", url: "http://www.google.com". This is unfortunate because it is highlighted as selected if you are on the resource from which you set it.

The other solution is to over-write the ActiveAdmin::Views::Header as above, but updated.

module ActiveAdmin
  module Views
    class Header < Component

      def build_global_navigation
        item = ActiveAdmin::MenuItem.new(label: "google", url: "http://www.google.com")
        @menu.add item
        insert_tag view_factory.global_navigation, @menu, :class => 'header-item'
      end
    end
  end
end

This doesn't work exactly right, as you can't set things like parent: "Developer" for the menu item... Anyway, I may make a fork so you can add items in the initializer to a particular namespace...Did anyone open an issue for this? I didn't see one.

Update: I think this is the cleanest way to implement this (without contributing to active admin).

ActiveAdmin.register_page "Queue" do
  menu parent: "Developer", url: '/admin/resque'
end