Customizing your new and edit pages

Customizing the `#new` form

You can customize the #new form by defining #form_schema in your admin controller. Let’s make it blank.

class Admin::ReceiptsController < AdminController
  private

  def model
    Product
  end

  def form_schema
    Super::Form.new do |f, type|
    end
  end
end

Once you save and reload that page, you should see a submit button with no form fields.

The f variable is similar to a Hash where the key is the column name and the value is the rule we use to turn it into a human readable value.

With that in mind, let’s manually make it look like it used to.

def form_schema
  Super::Form.new do |f, type|
    f[:customer_id] = type.text_field
    f[:price_cents] = type.text_field
  end
end

But this isn’t very pleasant to use. It’s hard to know what number to type in for the customer ID, so let’s make that a dropdown.

def form_schema
  Super::Form.new do |f, type|
    customers = Customer.all.map do |c|
      [c.id, c.name]
    end
    f[:customer_id] = type.select(customers)
    f[:price_cents] = type.text_field
  end
end

Customizing the `#edit` form

Let’s say for some reason, we only want to let admins set the price_cents value when creating a record, but not when editing. We can use the #current_action method that’s already defined in the admin controller.

def form_schema
  Super::Form.new do |f, type|
    f[:customer_id] = type.text_field
    f[:price_cents] = type.text_field(disabled: current_action.edit?)
  end
end

This shows the price_cents column while preventing it from being edited. You can also hide it altogether by setting f[:price_cents] only on the new? field.

def form_schema
  Super::Form.new do |f, type|
    f[:customer_id] = type.text_field
    if current_action.new?
      f[:price_cents] = type.text_field
    end
  end
end

Customizing strong parameters

You shouldn’t have to customize this behavior at all. Super can figure out strong parameters by allowing all of the form fields that are specified as the key f[$this_part]; this also works in conjunction with nested attributes.

Forms with nested attributes

Using unsupported form fields

Supported form types

#direct for calling unsupported form builder methods
#select
#text_field
#rich_text_area (ActionText)
#check_box
#date_flatpickr
#datetime_flatpickr
#time_flatpickr
#hidden_field
#password_field
Nested attributes
- #has_many
- #has_one / #belongs_to
- #_destroy checkbox