Active Admin Blaze Theme

A theme for Active Admin using Blaze CSS

Features:

CSS only theme with clean UI
compact nested forms
customizable: colors, sidebar position, scroll on cells
custom controls / components: toggle, Sidebar menu, Accordion, Readonly field
Blaze CSS widgets

Install

Add to your Gemfile:

gem 'activeadmin_blaze_theme'

Execute bundle
Add at the end of your ActiveAdmin styles (app/assets/stylesheets/active_admin.scss):

@import "activeadmin_blaze_theme/theme";

Customize

To change colors add before your ActiveAdmin styles (app/assets/stylesheets/active_admin.scss):

// blaze colors
$color-brand: #2C3E50;
$color-info: #4dabf5;
$color-warning: #ff9800;
$color-success: #4caf50;
$color-error: #f44336;
// main variables
$bg-footer: #dfdfdf !default;               // bg footer bar
$bg-form1: #f4f4f4 !default;                // bg 1st level forms
$bg-form2: darken($bg-form1, 3%) !default;  // bg 2nd level forms (nested)
$bg-form3: darken($bg-form1, 6%) !default;  // bg 3rd level forms (nested)
$bg-form4: darken($bg-form1, 9%) !default;  // bg 4th level forms (nested)
$bg-form-sub-headings: lighten( $color-brand, 64% ) !default;  // bg nested forms title
$bg-header: $color-brand !default;          // bg header bar
$bg-inputs: #fff !default;                  // bg forms inputs
$bg-menu-active: #7b929e !default;          // bg menu item current / hover
$bg-sidebar: #efefef;                       // bg sidebar
$fg-box-title: #fff !default;
$fg-button-link: #fff !default;
$fg-menu-items: #f8f8f8 !default;
$fg-table-borders: #e4e4e4 !default;
$fg-table-link: #eee !default;
// other variables
$form-padding: 10px !default;
$inputs-spacing: 10px !default;
$height-inputs: 26px !default;
$height-topbar: 40px !default;
$height-titlebar: 38px !default;
$text-shadow: #000 !default;

To move sidebar on the left add to your ActiveAdmin styles (after blaze theme import):

#active_admin_content.with_sidebar {
  @extend .sidebar_left;
}

More options:

// scrollable table cells
body.active_admin .index_content table {
  @extend .scrollable_cells;
}

// fix ckeditor width
body.active_admin .cke {
  @extend .ckeditor_width_fix
}

Custom fields / components

Toggle

In form \ inputs block:

f.input :boolean, as: :blaze_toggle

To change toggle color:

f.input :boolean, as: :blaze_toggle, input_html: { toggle_class: 'c-toggle--brand' }

Available: c-toggle--brand, c-toggle--info, c-toggle--warning, c-toggle--success, c-toggle--error

Standard checkbox with label on the left:

f.input :boolean, as: :blaze_toggle, input_html: { simple_checkbox: true }

A sidebar menu (priority option permit to put the sidebar above the filters):

sidebar :help, priority: 0 do
  ul class: 'blaze-menu' do
    li do
      link_to 'Menu item 1', admin_root_path
    end
    li do
      link_to 'Menu item 2', admin_root_path
    end
    li do
      link_to 'Menu item 3', admin_root_path
    end
  end
end

Accordion

An accordion group in a form:

f.accordion_group do
  f.accordion 'First accordion' do
    f.inputs for: [:detail, f.object.detail || Detail.new] do |f2|
      f2.input :meta_title
      f2.input :meta_keywords
    end
  end
  f.accordion 'Second accordion' do
    f.inputs for: [:more_detail, f.object.morel_detail || Detail.new] do |f2|
      f2.input :meta_title
      f2.input :meta_keywords
    end
  end
end

Readonly field

Some readonly fields in a form:

f.readonly :position

f.readonly :position, f.object.position * 2

f.readonly 'Code', 'Automatically set after save', class: 'a-wrapper-class'

f.readonly nil, 'Value only, no label'

Blaze widgets

See components avaible in Blaze CSS docs.

Badge example:

f.input :price, label: raw( 'Price <span class="c-badge c-badge--warning" style="position: relative; top: -5px">in $</span>' )

Button example:

a 'clear form', href: '#', class: 'c-button c-button--error', onclick: 'event.preventDefault();document.forms[0].reset();'

Progress bar example:

div class: 'c-progress' do
  div class: 'c-progress__bar c-progress__bar--success', style: "width: #{f.object.a_field}%;"
end

Screenshots

Index:

index

Edit:

edit

Show - sidebar on the left: