hey everyone - I was wondering if its possible ...
# avo-2f
few-beach-88179
10/09/2023, 9:01 AMhey everyone - I was wondering if its possible to have a resource that's not backed by an active record model? I have a simple key/val hash that I'd like to treat as a resource, at least for just the index page? and to be able to sort the index page by key or value? Is this possible?
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miniature-optician-85831
10/09/2023, 9:01 AMThread automatically created by gee_forr in #740893011994738751
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loud-jewelry-99127
10/09/2023, 9:13 AMHello there, you can achieve that behavior using [tools](https://docs.avohq.io/2.0/custom-tools.html#generate-tools) or [resource tools](https://docs.avohq.io/2.0/resource-tools.html#resource-tools)
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few-beach-88179
10/09/2023, 9:14 AMhey there - thanks for the response. I'll take a look.
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loud-jewelry-99127
10/09/2023, 9:15 AMResource tools are usefull when you want to implement some custom page and render it inside some resource's show page
loud-jewelry-99127
10/09/2023, 9:15 AMTools are ussefull when you want an custom independent page
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lemon-wall-20836
10/09/2023, 9:54 AMI don't know if that's possible TBH
lemon-wall-20836
10/09/2023, 9:54 AMit's something that we'd like to support at some point. we have a PoC with that but not ready for releasing
lemon-wall-20836
10/09/2023, 9:54 AMlemon-wall-20836
10/09/2023, 9:54 AMmaybe using something like that
lemon-wall-20836
10/09/2023, 9:55 AMor maybe there's some room for someone to make a gem
lemon-wall-20836
10/09/2023, 9:55 AMmaybe like this one?
https://github.com/calebporzio/sushi
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few-beach-88179
10/09/2023, 10:22 AMI'm trying to use
ActiveHashfew-beach-88179
10/09/2023, 10:22 AMits quite challenging as pagy is breaking everywhere
few-beach-88179
10/09/2023, 10:23 AMnot really Avo's problem though. @lemon-wall-20836 or @loud-jewelry-99127 I wonder - is it possible to completely disable index pagination on a single resource?
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lemon-wall-20836
10/09/2023, 11:33 AMbrb. on a call right now
lemon-wall-20836
10/09/2023, 1:26 PMok. so probably that needs to be investigated and make pagy work with active_hash
lemon-wall-20836
10/09/2023, 1:26 PMif there are methods that pagy needs and are missing from active_hash, you can add them personally to your model to bridge the gap
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few-beach-88179
10/09/2023, 1:34 PMhi @lemon-wall-20836 - yeah - I'm busy monkey patching active hash to support the missing or different methods, i was just wondering if it's possible to deactivate pagination completely for a single resource to work around the problem.
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lemon-wall-20836
10/09/2023, 1:35 PMthere is not a way to do that, but if you'd like to add a PR to extract the pagination bit in a method that is overridable, we would merge it
lemon-wall-20836
10/09/2023, 1:35 PMthis line is relevant to that
https://github.com/avo-hq/avo/blob/fix/variant_resize_image/app/controllers/avo/base_controller.rb#L75
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few-beach-88179
10/10/2023, 7:02 AMI'll take a look - honestly, activehash is not work the hassle - to get it working, but I'll still look at the pagination - time permitting
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future-match-90639
07/23/2025, 4:11 PMl
loud-jewelry-99127
07/23/2025, 4:18 PMHei @future-match-90639
Could you provide more context?
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lemon-wall-20836
07/23/2025, 7:28 PMjust set it then 😛
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future-match-90639
07/24/2025, 5:19 PMI am using active hash and want to:
- display associated categories in avo (offer has_many categories) -> does not work
- add has_one_attached :image to an active_hash model -> more trouble
anyway ActiveHash has been a pain (have to do a lot of inclusions and patches all around), so moving away from it.
nothing for you to do 🙂
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lemon-wall-20836
07/25/2025, 8:56 AMwe didn't know about active hash when we built the array adapter
lemon-wall-20836
07/25/2025, 8:56 AMit's a pitty it's not working nicely