Question

I am designing a basic file manager (the Asset model) in the Active Admin gem. Each Asset HABTM Groups, and vice-versa.

In my active_admin Asset resource I have a filter where I want to be able to
select multiple groups to filter by, so I added:

filter :groups_id, :as => :check_boxes, :collection => proc {Group.all}

All of the groups show up as checkboxes as expected. However, if I have asset_1, asset_2 and I have group_1 assigned to asset_1 and asset_2, and group_2 to asset_2, when I
filter by both roles, asset_2 lists itself twice.

How can I restrict the filter to use only “distinct” or “unique” assets to be returned?

I also have another problem, which is that the filters are not working at all in any of my scopes.

Answer 1

has_and_belongs_to_many accepts a :uniq option which ensures that only uniq records will be returned. Setting this in your model should do the trick.

class MyModel
  has_and_belongs_to_many :things, :uniq => true
end