filter specific action on a per-record basis

[DavidGeismarLtd]

• What would you like to be able to do? Can you provide some examples?

At the moment if you want to filter out a specific action in the dashboards you can override valid_action?

    def valid_action?(name, resource = resource_class)
      %w[].exclude?(name.to_s) && super
    end

Is there a way to fine tune that on a per resource basis, say I only want record of a certain type to be editable.

• How could we go about implementing that? Would be lovely to be able to write something like :

    def valid_action?(name, resource = resource_class)
      %w[ edit ].exclude?(name.to_s)  if resource.kind = 'non_editable'
      super
    end

• Can you think of other approaches to the problem?

[pablobm]

Would show_action? work for you? It's different from valid_action?. See http://administrate-demo.herokuapp.com/authorization

To clarify:

• valid_action?: tells if a route exists for the action. It probably should be a private method...
• show_action?: controls authorization. For example, it's the one overriden by Punditize.

The names are a bit confusing. I'm currently working on a branch that should make this clearer.

[pablobm]

Should be fixed by https://github.com/thoughtbot/administrate/pull/1941