Adding a User Report Page to a Rails App

admin page for user_report

Steps:

rails generate controller AdminPortal user_report user_lookup user_select_action

- Default generator creates a lot of files, these include the following:

create  app/controllers/admin_portal_controller.rb - the controller
route  get 'admin_portal/user_report' - updates the routes file to point to actions in controller
invoke  erb
create    app/views/admin_portal - admin_portal views folder
create    app/views/admin_portal/user_report.html.erb - admin_portal#user_report action's view
create    app/views/admin_portal/user_lookup.html.erb - admin_portal#user_lookup action's view
create    app/views/admin_portal/user_select_action.html.erb - admin_portal#user_select_action action's view
invoke  test_unit
create    test/controllers/admin_portal_controller_test.rb - test file for the controller
invoke  helper
create    app/helpers/admin_portal_helper.rb - helper for the controller
invoke    test_unit
invoke  assets
invoke    coffee
create      app/assets/javascripts/admin_portal.coffee - coffescript file for the controller's view
invoke    scss
create      app/assets/stylesheets/admin_portal.scss - styles file for the controller's view

This commands all of the files you would need in classic rails to add styles, javascript (coffeescript), and the views and any helpers in the controller. In this case we won't be using the helpers or the test file, so we can rerun this command and have it remove those files. We must keep the styling file because in our app we are always including the styles for a given controller (see app/views/layouts/application.html.erb:12)

git clean -f -d && git reset --hard

rails generate controller AdminPortal user_report user_lookup user_select_action --no-helper --no-javascripts

* no way to not generate the test file that i found, probably could though

start server

rails s

Go to localhost:3000/admin_portal/user_report

Shows that it works. Now add this form into the user_lookup.html.erb file

<form action="user_select_action">
  <input name="user_email" type="email">
  <input type="submit">
</form>

This will submit the form to the controller to action user_select_action. Enter this into the admin_portal#user_select_action controller:

def user_select_action
  @user = User.find_by(email: params[:user_email])
end

Then add this to the user_select_action.html.erb file:

<form action="user_report">
  <label for="user_report"><input name="user_report" type="checkbox">Device Status</label>
  <input type="submit">
</form>


Then add the report code to your action and have it return the information in the user_report.html.erb