active admin render edit page

Question

I can easily redirect but I'd like to do a render the edit page on validation failure so I carry over all the validation methods into the form. I'm not sure how to render the edit action using active_admin.

If I try render :action => 'edit' I get a template missing page I also tried render active_admin_template('edit.html.arb') which gives me a page within a page, but no errors.

Any ideas?

  member_action :state do
    space = Space.find(params[:id])
    if space.send(params[:state])
      #space.send(params[:state]+"!")
      flash[:notice] = "State Changed!"
      redirect_to :action => :index
    else
      #render :action => 'edit'
      #render active_admin_template('edit.html.arb')
      flash[:error] = "#{space.errors}"
      redirect_to :action => :edit
    end
  end

Yorke

Answer 1

Have you tried this?

render active_admin_template('edit.html.arb'), :layout => false

Strive

That solves the layout nesting problem, but is there anyway for it to highlight the fields that fail validation? In the normal way edit would? Currently I'm passing them in a flash method: "{:photos=>["does not have enough entries"], :blurb=>["Your message must be at least 50 words."]}" – Yorke

Not sure, sorry. But I will probably need to solve this for my current project, too. – Basilius

this method does not exist in more recent versions - see #6653593 for an alternative solution – Solicitor

Answer 2

I had a similar issue, but I was overriding the create controller and wanted all the active admin godness for rendering error messaegs. So here is what I did

controller do
 layout 'active_admin',  :only => [:create,:my_collection_method,:my_member_method]

 def create
 //my code here
 end
end

So basically, i added the 'layout "active_admin" ' line in my controller part and added ALL my custom methods. So the 'my_collection_method' is a custom collection action in the active amdin resource, something like

:my_collection_action, :method=>:get do
//my code here
end

You could try something similar

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