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#admin/users.rb to use in a single controller
ActiveAdmin.register User do
  controller do
    include ActiveAdmin::CSVStream
  end
end

# put in an autoloaded path, like lib/active_admin
require 'csv'

module ActiveAdmin

  module CSVStream
    
    # using ActionController::Live breaks warden
    # see https://github.com/plataformatec/devise/issues/2332
    # include ActionController::Live
    
    def apply_pagination(chain)
      chain = super unless formats.include?(:csv)
      chain
    end
    
    def index
      index! do |format|
        format.csv { render_csv }
      end
    end

    private
    
    def render_csv      
      set_csv_headers
      self.response_body = csv_lines
    end

    def set_csv_headers
      headers["Content-Type"] = "text/csv"
    end
    
    def csv_lines
      default = ActiveAdmin.application.csv_options
      options = default.merge active_admin_config.csv_builder.options
      columns = active_admin_config.csv_builder.columns
      
      Enumerator.new do |y|
        CSV.generate(options) do |csv|
          y << columns.map(&:name).to_csv
          #response.stream.write columns.map(&:name).to_csv
          collection.each do |resource|
            row = columns.map do |column|
              call_method_or_proc_on resource, column.data
            end.to_csv
            y << row
            #response.stream.write row
          end
        end
      end
      #response.stream.close
    end
    
  end
  
end

# if you want to monkey patch every controller, put this in initializers/active_admin.rb
ActiveAdmin::ResourceController.class_eval do
  include ActiveAdmin::CSVStream
end