Active Admin Associations

Question

Active Admin has an opinionated way of showing associations that works excellent as long as the association has a field called name. I know there's a way to tell Active Admin which field to show from the associated file but I cannot find it anywhere in the documentation.

I have a model called app_label_translation that belongs_to app_label. app_label has a field called label that I'd like Active Admin treat as it would a field named name.

As a work-around I'm doing this:

  index do
    selectable_column
    id_column
      column :app_label, sortable: "app_labels.label" do |a|
      link_to a.app_label.label admin_app_label_path(a.app_label)
    end
  end

Does anyone know the command to override name with a field of your choice?

Update: I'm using a slightly better work-around now by having alias_attribute :name, :label in my app_label model. This allows active admin to do its thing with label. I still think there's a better way to do this.

rikola rikola · Accepted Answer · 2016-04-12T19:08:05

Just pass in another argument before the model you want to display in the column.

Taken from their documentation: http://activeadmin.info/docs/3-index-pages/index-as-table.html

index do
  selectable_column
  column "My Custom Title", :title
end

That should do the trick.

Active Admin Associations

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