Active Admin: Customize only new form
I'm using Active Admin to provide an admin to some models. I need to provide a customized new form for one of them, but leave the edit form as the default provided by Active Admin. Here's what I have. It works in that it is giving me the new form I want, but the edit form is also using the new form, which is not what I want:
ActiveAdmin.register Document do
form :partial => 'form'
end
I've tried this, but it gives an error that 'new' is an undefined method:
ActiveAdmin.register Document do
new do
form :partial => 'form'
end
end
If you just want to hide or show certain fields on the new form (e.g. a field that you generate automatically in the model using before_create), you can do this:
form do |f|
f.inputs "Member Details" do
f.input :first_name
f.input :last_name
f.input :email
if !f.object.new_record?
f.input :password
f.input :password_confirmation
end
end
f.button :Submit
end
This will hide the password fields when you create a new member in the event that you automatically generate passwords the first time the member is created.
I've figured out a way to do it with some logic in the view. Not the best way, to be sure, but it does what I want until I figure out a better way. Here's the logic I'm using:
<% if controller.action_name == 'new' %>
new form
<% else %>
edit form
<% end -%>
I am not sure it can be done directly with form
. If you take a look at the code you'll see that only the last call is taken into account. On the other hand, you may try something like:
config.set_page_config :new do
form :partial => 'form'
end
But I would rather ask the developers for this feature.