Initializer for handling ActiveRecord (4.1+) enums by RailsAdmin (0.6.2)

active_record_enum_with_rails_admin.rb

module ActiveRecord
  module RailsAdminEnum
    def enum(definitions)
      super

      definitions.each do |name, values|
        define_method("#{ name }_enum") { self.class.send(name.to_s.pluralize).to_a }

        define_method("#{ name }=") do |value|
          if value.kind_of?(String) and value.to_i.to_s == value
            super value.to_i
          else
            super value
          end
        end
      end
    end
  end
end

ActiveRecord::Base.send(:extend, ActiveRecord::RailsAdminEnum)

Works like a charm. thanks a lot

Thank You - saved my day!

Don't forget to prevent filtering of the enum fields by

  rails_admin do
    configure :status do
      searchable false
    end
  end

otherwise search/filter will throw errors

Note: to add localization (default attribute path translation) support, change getter method definition to

define_method("#{ name }_enum") {
  self.class.send(name.to_s.pluralize).to_a.map do |k, v|
    translated = I18n.t(k, scope: [:activerecord, :attributes, self.class.to_s.downcase, name.to_s.pluralize])
    processed_key = translated.include?('translation missing') ? k : translated
    [processed_key, v]
  end
}

thanks @chris-roerig - filename updated

Thank you. @dmilisic Works like a charm

Please help me!. I have a model LocationMaster which consists of all locations. I want to display the locations as enum in rails admin. I want to store the id of the location selected by the user in location_master_id filed. I cant get it. Please help me!

Strange enough, my filtering does seem to work with enum fields. The only things I did were to add the patch file and add the lines of field :category.

Thanks! worked like a charm

bit late on this but thanks so much - worked perfectly straight off the bat and saved me a lot of headache time..

thanks!

To make this work in Rails 5, I had to change:

self.class.send(name.to_s.pluralize).to_a

to

self.class.send(name.to_s.pluralize).keys.to_a

The documentation for supported formats is here:

https://github.com/sferik/rails_admin/wiki/Enumeration

Before adding this, the filter did not work. Now the filter works fine.
But, now my enum field in the form (rails_admin form) does not get populated with the stored value. It defaults to nil.

Update

It is fixed now. I tried the suggestion by @jefflab (right above my comment) and it works.

Also had the issue with form value not populated with stored value. (and fix from @jefflab broke the filtering for me)
I was able to fix it with adding mentioned initializer + :

          configure :state, :enum do
            def form_value
              bindings[:object].state_before_type_cast
            end
          end