Where to define my CSS

[samdebutcha]

In readme "Fields - Column CSS class"

config.model Team do
    list do
      field :name
      field :created_at do
        css_class "customClass"
      end
    end
  end

where I should define customClass, except the hook:

before_filter :if => Proc.new{ |c| c.request.path =~ /admin/ } do
    @head_stylesheet_paths = ['rails_admin_custom.css']
end

[samdebutcha]

Please someone to throw some comment here please

[amalagaura]

I am also struggling with this, I see this description in a file:

Customize RailsAdmin theme here.
Copy this file to your app/assets/rails_admin/custom/theming.css.scss, leave this one untouched

I tried creating that file, but it still is not loaded, is it related to this?

#765

[woahdae]

That was a typo, should have been app/assets/stylesheets/rails_admin/custom/theming.css.scss

Still, doesn't work for me. It should though, not sure why it's not picking up the files in my app/assets/stylesheets/...

[woahdae]

From the SASS docs:

:load_paths
An array of filesystem paths or importers which should be searched for Sass templates imported with the @import directive. These may be strings, Pathname objects, or subclasses of Sass::Importers::Base. This defaults to the working directory and, in Rack, Rails, or Merb, whatever :template_location is. [emphasis mine]

rails_admin/imports.css.scss uses relative paths that would never hit your app if the SASS docs are to be taken seriously.

[woahdae]

Noticed that rails_admin/rails_admin.css is using sprockets to require rails_admin/imports.css.scss.erb. Therefore, if you also copy rails_admin/imports.css.scss, sprockets will pick up your imports.css.scss.erb first, which will then look in the current directory before the rails_admin directory.

This is definitely a work-around, not sure what the real solution is. Using sprockets in custom/*.css.scss?

[yesezra]

I'm also having this problem. Copying the rails_admin/imports.css.scss.erb file is working for me, but does feel like a hack.

[bbenezech]

Weird. It worked when I added the feature (it was picking app's file before the dummy RailsAdmin one).

Anyone with an idea for a fix?

[ehoch]

Do we have a solution for this? It's definitely not working for me... But I should say that overring ui.js has been working beautifully for my javascript.

[rystraum]

For those that found a workaround, what exactly did you do?
Copying app/assets/stylesheets/rails_admin/(imports/rails_admin) to my app does not seem to do anything.
Neither does trying to override app/assets/rails_admin/custom/ui.js as ehoch did. (Thought I might apply the CSS through JS instead.)

[jmondo]

I'm also struggling with this. Let us know if you've found a workaround!

[Tuckie]

tmp/cache delete to the rescue!

I was having the same issue, and then I gave the:

Don't forget to re-compile your assets or simply delete the content of your tmp/cache folder.

a shot and all is well :)

[pazaricha]

so any answer to this?

[caboteria]

Based on @Tuckie's comment it looks as if this was a cache issue. If not, please re-open.

[ideadapt]

I had to copy over rails_admin/rails_admin.js and add it to precompile, then everything worked. Same procedure with rails_admin/rails_admin.scss.erb (add the compiled name to precompile += %w{rails_admin/rails_admin.css}).

[aomahony]

This is not working at all. I've tried everything I can to get this to work, and it doesn't seem to want to use my rails_admin/custom/theming.css.scss (or theming.scss) file. I've deleted tmp/cache, recompiled my assets, edited the manifest file, everything. Can someone give me a simple example of how to override theming.scss?

[johnkueh]

It works for me on my local machine, but it still serves the old assets on Heroku. Anyone found a fix yet?

[ideadapt]

I also had some problems with old assets being served. After I stumbled over rails/sprockets-rails#95 I realized that I have to create non digest assets for some ckeditor resources, because sprockets is not always able to update referencing digests as expected. I use the following rake task todo so:

# based on https://gist.github.com/markbao/6431880
require 'fileutils'

desc "Create nondigest versions of all ckeditor digest assets"
task "assets:precompile" => :environment do
  fingerprint = /\-([0-9a-f]{32})\./
  #for file in Dir["public/assets/ckeditor/**/*"]
  for file in Dir['public/assets/ckeditor/skins/moono/*.png', 'public/assets/ckeditor/config-*.js', 'public/assets/ckeditor/config-*.js.gz']
    # Skip file unless it has a fingerprint
    next unless file =~ fingerprint

    # Get filename of this file without the digest
    # (example) public/assets/ckeditor/config.js
    nondigest = file.sub fingerprint, '.'

    # Create a filename relative to public/assets
    # (example) public/assets/ckeditor/config.js => ckeditor/config.js
    filename = nondigest.sub 'public/assets/', ''
    filename = filename.sub /.gz$/, '' # Remove .gz for correct asset checking

    # Fetch the latest digest for this file from assets
    latest_digest = Rails.application.assets.find_asset(filename).digest

    # Compare digest of this file to latest digest
    # [1] is the enclosed capture in the fingerprint regex above
    this_digest = file.match(fingerprint)[1]
    if (this_digest == latest_digest)
      # This file's digest matches latest digest, copy
      #puts 'Matching digest, copying ' + file
      FileUtils.cp file, nondigest, verbose: true
    else
      # This file's digest doesn't match latest digest, ignore
      puts 'Non-matching digests, use latest digest to create ' + nondigest
      puts 'Latest digest: ' + latest_digest
      puts 'This digest:   ' + this_digest
      #puts 'Non-matching digest, not copying ' + file
      FileUtils.cp "public/assets/#{Rails.application.assets.find_asset(filename).digest_path}", nondigest, verbose: true
    end
  end
end

This rake task is executed after each assets:precompile, hence the new files will be in the heroku slug, and are not deleted after e.g. a dyno restart.

[chrisbloom7]

Having the same problem as @aomahony. This is on a development machine, so there shouldn't be any asset precompiling anyway. I did delete my tmp/cache folder just to be safe, but still no difference. This is on Rails 4.0 with RA 0.6.0.

[chrisbloom7]

Restarting the server seemed to do the trick on development. Fingers crossed that it works on production/staging.

[chrisbloom7]

Nope, does not work in my staging environment on Heroku :(

If I precompile it locally, I can see the custom CSS is added to the rails_admin.css file, but this doesn't seem to work on Heroku using it's deploy-time asset precompiling. I'd rather not have to rely on precompiling locally before each deploy.

[johnkueh]

Anyone found a fix? I've tried everything but it still doesnt work on staging/production on Heroku. Works on local dev environment. Please help, thanks!

[leebrooks0]

+1 @chrisbloom7 restarting the server did the trick for me too.

[leepowers]

Nothing in this thread worked for me.

Problem was, I was following the following instructions, as found in app/assets/styleheets/rails_admin/custom/theming.scss:

Copy this file to your app/assets/styleheets/rails_admin/custom/theming.css.scss, leave this one untouched

What worked: ignoring these instructions, overwriting theming.scss instead of copying to theming.css.scss and recompiling assets with bundle exec rake assets:precompile

[dmilisic]

Here is what worked for me:

I copied default theme from rails admin gem app/assets/stylesheets/rails_admin/themes/default to my application app/assets/stylesheets/rails_admin/themes/xyz and edited theming.scss file.

In config/application.rb i added ENV['RAILS_ADMIN_THEME'] = 'xyz' after Bundler.require(*Rails.groups).

That worked for development but i couldn't force heroku to recompile rails_admin.css.

Changing asset version in config/initializers/assets.rb to Rails.application.config.assets.version = '1.1' did the trick - heroku recompiled all assets. This configuration can be found in config/environments/production.rb for older Rails versions.

Hope it helps someone

[KonstantinKo]

So, I had the same problem and discovered that yes, for me it was a caching problem as well. I just didn't restart the server and cleared the tmp/cache and precompiled assets at the same time.

In the process of discovering this I created a minimal testing app: https://github.com/KonstantinKo/rails_admin_issue_738_test

Since people still seem to have this issue:
To help debugging I propose you fork that project and get it to fail with what you were doing.

[u007]

ive followed dmilisic configuration,
and setting this seems to does the trick even in development environment

Rails.application.config.assets.version = '1.1'

[commodoretyler]

Clearing tmp/cache and restarting the server worked for me as well. This really should be in the docs.