Question

Overriding a new controller without ‘new!’ does not display ActiveAdmin layout. But then when I added ‘new!’ nested ‘synchronization’ form is not appearing although I did ‘@resource.build_synchronization’. Not so sure what I’m doing wrong here.

case #1 (ActiveAdmin layout is gone)

ActiveAdmin.register Resource do
  controller do
      # This code is evaluated within the controller class
      def new
        @resource = Resource.new
        @resource.build_synchronization
      end
  end
end

case #2 (nested form synchronization does not appear)

ActiveAdmin.register Resource do
  controller do
      # This code is evaluated within the controller class
      def new
        @resource = Resource.new
        @resource.build_synchronization
        new!

      end
  end
end

---

views\admin\resources\new.html.erb

<%= semantic_form_for [:admin, @resource] do |form| %>
    <%= form.inputs "Resource", :id => "resource" do %>
        <%= form.input :name %>
        <%= form.semantic_fields_for :synchronization do |sync| %>
            <% sync.inputs  :name => "Synchronization", :id => "synchronization"  do %>
                <%= sync.input :start_datetime, :as => :datetime %>
                <%= sync.input :repeat_interval, :as => :radio, :collection => @intervals %>
                <%= sync.input :repeat_type, :as => :select, :collection => ["Manual", "Automatic"] %>
            <% end %>
        <% end %>
    <% end %>
    <%= form.buttons %>
<% end %>
<% end %>

---

models:

class Resource < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_one :synchronization
  accepts_nested_attributes_for :synchronization
end


class Synchronization < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :resource
  has_many :mappings
  accepts_nested_attributes_for :mappings
  #validates_presence_of :start_datetime
end

Answer 1

You need to put the form.semantic_fields_for statement inside a form.inputs block.

Also, I would not put form.buttons inside neither the form.semantic_fields_for block nor a form.inputs block. It should be a direct child under the semantic_form_for block (this is not what is causing your problem, but just the location where you would normally put this).