Add native support for ActiveRecord Enums #3157

AlexeyMK · 2014-05-22T06:44:33Z

It seems pretty straightforward to default enum columns to a select in the edit form window: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23414880/how-to-properly-configure-rails-4-1-enums-in-activeadmin/23799562#23799562

Would be pretty awesome to support this natively, without requiring additional customization.

timoschilling · 2014-05-22T13:17:54Z

I can take a look on this.

timoschilling · 2014-07-09T21:50:45Z

@AlexeyMK I have take a look on that and i think this should be done by Formtastic and not by AA

AlexeyMK · 2014-07-09T22:01:02Z

makes sense.

seanlinsley · 2014-07-09T22:10:01Z

If someone can get a PR merged on Formtastic's side, sure, but Active Admin has plenty of custom form code.

timoschilling · 2014-10-16T16:30:31Z

Formtastic has that on his feature list (formtastic/formtastic#1059)

aldavigdis · 2015-01-11T21:01:33Z

@justinfrench has implemented this already according to formtastic/formtastic#1098. Any news about the current status as of now or a workaround that works for edit forms?

8000

timoschilling · 2015-02-02T14:22:53Z

Here are no news. Maybe some want to work on this?

thom-nic · 2015-02-05T14:01:55Z

For the record for other folks coming across this issue, the workaround is to explicitly specify the input for that column as a select with the correct values like so:

  form do |f|
    f.semantic_errors *f.object.errors.keys
    f.inputs do
      f.input :status, as: :select, collection: MyModel.statuses.keys
      # other attribute fields...
    end
    f.actions
  end

...where status is the enum column and statuses is a hash that ActiveRecord automatically generates on the model from the enum values.

XBeg9 · 2015-02-24T15:42:59Z

@thom-nic Do you know how to filter by enums fields? Thanks

besi · 2015-08-06T02:55:37Z

👍

@XBeg9: I found this here http://stackoverflow.com/a/25437896/784318:

filter :level, as: :select, collection: Model.levels

iangreenleaf · 2015-08-18T22:19:16Z

filter :level, as: :select, collection: Model.levels

This solution makes the filtering functionality work, but the "Current filters" section displays the integer values, like "Current filters: Status equals 2". And unfortunately using the keys as suggested for the other solutions won't work here, because ActiveRecord::Enum doesn't support Model.where(status: "foobar").

So, one more small thing that it would be great to have AA do automatically if possible.

gerryhd · 2018-02-08T07:10:01Z

This solution makes the filtering functionality work, but the "Current filters" section displays the integer values, like "Current filters: Status equals 2"

I somewhat looked into a way to implement enum keys into the filter message. It seems that a method defined_enums exists for models. I'm thinking maybe this can be evaluated in the values method in active_filter.rb to then retrieve the values if the key is found in the defined_enums hash.

sergey-alekseev · 2021-05-21T10:38:00Z

Just FYI the filter problem is still actual in 2021.

jcasier · 2021-10-26T20:23:55Z

For the record for other folks coming across this issue, the workaround is to explicitly specify the input for that column as a select with the correct values like so:
  form do |f|
    f.semantic_errors *f.object.errors.keys
    f.inputs do
      f.input :status, as: :select, collection: MyModel.statuses.keys
      # other attribute fields...
    end
    f.actions
  end
...where status is the enum column and statuses is a hash that ActiveRecord automatically generates on the model from the enum values.

I needed MyModel.statuses.symbolize_keys to get this to work

sebfie · 2022-01-20T15:29:58Z

Right, the issue is still here :

harunkumars · 2023-01-27T07:28:32Z

I somewhat looked into a way to implement enum keys into the filter message. It seems that a method defined_enums exists for models. I'm thinking maybe this can be evaluated in the values method in active_filter.rb to then retrieve the values if the key is found in the defined_enums hash.

This PR (#7790) codifies the comment above from @gerryhd

javierjulio · 2023-03-12T22:55:29Z

We have a PR for this. Thank you.

npgretz · 2024-03-06T15:54:34Z

This is still very much a desired feature for me. I inherited an application where a combination of Enumerize and enum are used with ActiveAdmin filter and input forms.

For ActiveRecord models with:

enum status: { 'completed': 0, 'pending': 1}

I cannot use:

filter :status, as: :select, multiple: true ...

and the int is shown in the view of active filters. Alternatively, some of the models have varchar (int was used for models with enum) for their status column type in MySQL and use:

enumerize :status, in: {to_be_scheduled:0, scheduled:1, completed:2, incomplete:4, left_message:5, unreachable:6}, scope: :statuses

For these models, I can use:

filter :status, as: :select, multiple: true ...

and in the view of active filters I will see "Status in scheduled", instead of "Status in 1" that the models using enum show. This was all very confusing to me when I inherited this application and I did not find any help in documentation or online.This may be a helpful work around until the PR is merged.

javierjulio · 2024-03-06T16:23:36Z

@npgretz hmm I don't know if it would work with a multi select. For enums, I use check boxes and that I know does work.

filter :status, as: :check_boxes, collection: -> { MyModel.statuses }

seanlinsley changed the title ~~Add native support for ActiveRails Enums~~ Add native support for ActiveRecord Enums May 23, 2014

varyonic added filters help wanted workaround labels Apr 30, 2017

javierjulio removed the filters label Jul 5, 2017

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Use ActiveRecord Enum labels in current filters status #7790

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