How to layout the dashboard sections vertically with ActiveAdmin?

Question

In the dashboards.rb file generated by ActiveAdmin 0.3.4, I added three sections consisting on wide tables with several columns. However ActiveAdmin displays each section next to the other, creating an unnecessary horizontal scrollbar.

How can I change this to a vertical layout?

dashboards.rb:

ActiveAdmin::Dashboards.build do
  section "Inactive users" do
    table do
      ...
    end
  end

  section "Deleted posts" do
    table do
      ...
    end
  end

  section "Latest comments" do
    table do
      ...
    end
  end
end

What I get:

I already tried using a div as the container for each table with no luck.

Answer 1

I finally fixed this with some CSS, in a new stylesheet:

active_admin_ex.css:

table.dashboard > tbody > tr > td {
  display:block;
}

Then, in config/initializers/active_admin.rb, I added:

config.register_stylesheet 'active_admin_ex.css'

And this fixed the display problem.

Answer 2

This answer for active_admin >= 0.5.1

Dashboard is structured in columns and panels Columns are... well, columns, which define the horizontal layout. Panels are like sections that stack verticaly.

A 2 column, 3 sections en each column, would be defined by:

columns do
  column do
    panel "top on column 1"
      # some code
    end
    panel "second on column 1"
      # some code
    end
    panel "last on column 1"
      # some code
    end
  end
  column do
    panel "top on column 2"
      # some code
    end
    panel "second on column 2"
      # some code
    end
    panel "last on column 2"
      # some code
    end
  end
end

Answer 3

more flexible, you can override the render_sections of the Dashboard class to use colspan:

module ActiveAdmin
  module Views
    module Pages
      class Dashboard < Base

        protected

        def render_sections(sections)
          cloned_sections = sections.clone
          table :class => "dashboard" do

            while !cloned_sections.empty?
              current_cols_number = 0
              tr do
                while current_cols_number < 12 && !cloned_sections.empty?
                  s       = cloned_sections.shift
                  colspan = s.options[:colspan].nil? ? 4 : s.options[:colspan]
                  td colspan: colspan do
                    render_section(s)
                  end
                  current_cols_number += colspan
                end
              end
            end

          end
        end

      end
    end
  end
end

you can add this code at the beginning of you app/admin/dashboard.rb file and then add the :colspan option when declaring a section:

  section "All time summary" , colspan: 6 , priority: 2  do
    div do
      render 'all_time_summary'
    end
  end

Answer 4

You have to use CSS to prevent that

div :class => 'some class name' do

end

style that class

Answer 5

columns do
      column do
        panel "Recent Created Restaurant" do
          table_for Restaurant.order('id desc').limit(5).each do |restaurant|
            column (:id) {|restaurant| link_to(restaurant.id, admin_restaurant_path(restaurant)) }
            column :name
            column :phone              
            column :updated_at
          end # table
        end # panel
      end # column


  column do
    panel "Recent Created Menu" do
      table_for Menu.order('id desc').limit(5).each do |menu|
        column (:id) {|menu| link_to(menu.id, admin_menu_path(menu)) }
        column :name
        column "Restaurant Name" do |menu|
          menu.restaurant.name
        end
        column :updated_at
      end # table
    end # panel
  end # column

  column do
    panel "Recent Created Order" do
      table_for Order.order('id desc').limit(5).each do |order|
        column (:id) {|order| link_to(order.id, admin_order_path(order)) }
        column :table
        column :status
        column "Item Name" do |order|
          order.item_orders.id
        end
        column :updated_at
      end # table
    end # panel
  end # column




end # columns