Rails: activeadmin overriding create action

activeadmin, inherited-resources, ruby-on-rails

Solution

I ran into a similar situation where I didn't really need to completely override the create method. I really only wanted to inject properties before save, and only on create; very similar to your example. After reading through the ActiveAdmin source, I determined that I could use `before_create` to do what I needed:

ActiveAdmin.register Product do
  before_create do |product|
    product.creator = current_user
  end
end

Problem

I have an activeadmin resource which has a belongs_to :user relationship. When I create a new Instance of the model in active admin, I want to associate the currently logged in user as the user who created the instance (pretty standard stuff I'd imagine). So... I got it working with: ``` controller do def create @item = Item.new(params[:item]) @item.user = current_curator super end end ``` However ;) I'm just wondering how this works? I just hoped that assigning the @item variable the user and then calling super would work (and it does). I also started looking through the gem but couldn't see how it was actually working. Any pointers would be great. I'm assuming this is something that InheritedResources gives you? Thanks!

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