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Add style switcher to Rails App admin section?

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It should be fairly easy and there are many ways to do it. You will need to save that preference somewhere. Maybe add an attribute to your user/person model that will specify that preference. And in your admin layout template, based on that preference, add an additional stylesheet. Or, add a class to the body tag and in your style sheet subclass the styles:

body {
  background-color: white;
}

body.sunshine {
  background-color: yellow;
}

The layout template:

<%= stylesheet_link_tag(current_user.theme) if current_user.theme %>

or

<body class="<%= current_user.theme || '' %>">

tom 2010-07-29 13:57:04

hope you don't mind the formatting

neutrino 2010-07-29 14:31:48

I understand the adding an attribute part, and I *think* I could get my head around allowing the admin to choose from a list of options which would set a particular style id in the attribute field in the database. But...how do I set the layout to load the chosen stylesheet?

dannymcc 2010-07-29 16:04:19

It could be something like: <%= stylesheet_link_tag(current_user.theme) if current_user.theme %> or <body class="<%= current_user.theme || '' %>">

tom 2010-07-30 14:48:56

Hi Tom, thank you for your help! I have added <body class="<%= current_user.theme || '' %>"> to the application layout, added a migration to add a theme column to the users table. I have now completely confused myself! I have branched the work off on GitHub:http://github.com/dannyweb/BaseApp2/tree/themes. Do I need to create a theme controller?

dannymcc 2010-07-30 16:50:04

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