Action Links Order

The order of action links is defined by order in action_links array. The follow line in list_actions and list_header partials iterates over action_links adding them to the page:

active_scaffold_config.action_links.each

Due to CSS, they are displayed in reverse order at list header and in right order for each record.

Custom action links (action links created in your controller with config.action_links.add or config.nested.add_link) are added to action_links array first, and default action links (links from actions like :create, :search, :update and so on) are added last. The order of action links is:

• At list header, default action links in reverse order and then custom action links in reverse order
• At each record, custom action links and then default action links.

So you can change action link order overriding config.actions in the controller, although you cannot mix custom action links with default ones. To change the default order for all controllers use set_defaults in ApplicationController:

ActiveScaffold.set_defaults do |config|
      config.actions = [:create, :list, :search, :show, :update, :delete, :nested, :subform] 
end

To mix custom action links, to get something like custom edit show delete another_custom, you can use per-request configuration to remove and add some links from action_links array:

before_filter :action_links_order

protected
# Moving action_name link to last
def action_links_order
  links = active_scaffold_config.action_links
  link = links[:action_name]
  if link
    links.delete :action_name
    links << link
  end
end