active admin render edit page

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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

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 26 '11 at 20:15

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Have you tried this?

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

answered Oct 26 '11 at 20:15

Brian D'Astous

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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."]}" – holden Oct 27 '11 at 07:49
Not sure, sorry. But I will probably need to solve this for my current project, too. – Brian D'Astous Oct 27 '11 at 20:39
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this method does not exist in more recent versions - see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6653093/activeadmin-how-to-render-default-template-in-customized-action/36665082#36665082 for an alternative solution – Anthony Wang Apr 16 '16 at 13:58

score 3 · Answer 2 · edited Jan 03 '13 at 12:02

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

active admin render edit page

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