Adrian I m trying to use Avo for regular
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06/27/2023, 3:02 PMAdrian, I'm trying to use Avo for regular users too. Is there a way to use some equivalent of 'current_user.resource.new/create'? All I see in the docs is admin focused where I could choose the User/Account/Whatever association with a dropdown box. I assume this is here, I just don't see it in the docs.
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06/27/2023, 5:16 PMhey man
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06/27/2023, 5:17 PMdon't understand what
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06/27/2023, 5:17 PMcan you please elaborate?
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06/27/2023, 5:19 PMsure
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06/27/2023, 5:19 PMso historically (in my old Rails apps) if I might call 'current_user.blogposts.new' or something when a user clicks a 'Create Blog Post' button
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06/27/2023, 5:20 PMIn an admin interface, you don't assume who created said blog post, so Avo gives me a dropdown to choose which User a new blog post belongs to
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06/27/2023, 5:20 PM(which is awesome behavior)
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06/27/2023, 5:20 PMoh, you mean to set a default value for a field?
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06/27/2023, 5:20 PMI'm trying to use Avo for non-admin users too, since it's so clean. But non-admin users obviously would be always set to a specific Blog Post owner
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06/27/2023, 5:21 PMfield :user, as: :belongs_to, default -> { current_user.id }a
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06/27/2023, 5:21 PMI can do a default value easy enough in the Resource
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06/27/2023, 5:21 PMyou could add a a
disabled: -> { current_user.blank? || !current_user.is_admin? }a
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06/27/2023, 5:21 PMI'm wondering if that's the correct way, or if there's one that would involve current_user.association.create/new
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06/27/2023, 5:21 PMor... you can go deeper and add ahidden field
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06/27/2023, 5:22 PMI don't know what this is
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06/27/2023, 5:22 PMis that a variable, a method call?
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06/27/2023, 5:22 PMyou've never used that syntax in a controller?
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06/27/2023, 5:22 PMno
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06/27/2023, 5:22 PMplease show me
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06/27/2023, 5:22 PMsure
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06/27/2023, 5:23 PMthis is from one of my old Rails 5 apps:
def new
@organization = current_user.organizations.new
render partial: "new"
end
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06/27/2023, 5:23 PMoh. ok. the
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06/27/2023, 5:23 PMdef create
@organization = current_user.organizations.new(organization_params)
save_model(@organization, "Your organization has been saved.")
end
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06/27/2023, 5:24 PM(save_model is a custom thing that saves the new object and does a few other things that Rails didn't do by default back when we started)
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06/27/2023, 5:24 PMI think this should do exaclty that
field :user_id, as: :hidden, default -> { current_user.id }a
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06/27/2023, 5:24 PMthis codebase is like 10 years old so maybe that isn't even the 'right way' to do it in modern rails
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06/27/2023, 5:25 PMI think you can do it within Avo too
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06/27/2023, 5:25 PMI'm all for minimal code so I'd like to stick as much to the 'Avo Way' when working inside Avo
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06/27/2023, 5:27 PMthis will get you there 100%
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06/27/2023, 5:29 PMawesome
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06/27/2023, 5:29 PMthanks