belongs_to form issue

[navjeetc]

I have a model

class Consent < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :disclosed_from_org, :class_name => "Organization", :foreign_key => "disclosed_from_orid"
  belongs_to :disclosed_to_org, :class_name => "Organization", :foreign_key => "disclosed_to_orid"
end

With this code in Active Admin edit form, it shows both two dropdowns for Organizations as well as two additional text fields for disclosed_from_orid and disclosed_to_orid and no matter. How to hide showing id fields. With this no matter what I choose in dropdown, it sets the org ids in consent model to the values in text fields.

[seanlinsley]

@navjeetc this is the reason: #4298 (comment)

[timoschilling]

That's can't be the reason. content_columns filter _id, but his fields ends with _orid.

[timoschilling]

@navjeetc is this still a issue for you?

[seanlinsley]

@timoschilling they're saying that the ID is showing up, and the don't want it to show up. So it's the reverse of #4298 (comment)

[Fivell]

so looks like we should implement own content_columns that works better for our needs

[Fivell]

created ticket in formtastic repo for tracking

[Fivell]

There is a solution now. Not sure if we need to create PR for this untill get answer from formtastic mantainers.

ActiveAdmin::FormBuilder is inherited from Formtastic::FormBuilder
we can override default_columns_for_object with

ActiveAdmin::FormBuilder.class_eval do
  def default_columns_for_object
    assoc_columns  = association_columns(:belongs_to)
    cnt_columns = content_columns
    klass = @object.class
    # remove custom foreign keys from content columns to prevent duplicated inputs
    if assoc_columns.present?
      cnt_columns -=  klass.reflections.map {|_,v| v.options[:foreign_key] }.compact
    end
    cols = asooc_columns + cnt_columns
    cols -= Formtastic::FormBuilder.skipped_columns
    cols.compact
  end
end

I will track it until formtastic provide more elegant way to fix this

[Fivell]

@timoschilling , formtastic guys tell they will accept PR for v 4.0.

[Fivell]

fixed by formtastic/formtastic#1241
until formtastic 4.0 this #3828 (comment) can be used