Introduction

For today(03 sep 2011) great rails_admin gem does not work with another great gem - acts_as_taggable_on, because rails_admin knows nothing about the virtual attributes *_list(tag_list, skill_list etc.), which created by acts_as_taggable_on for display and edit tags.

The problem is solved by this gem.

Installation

In your Gemfile:

gem 'rails_admin', :git => 'https://github.com/sferik/rails_admin.git'
gem 'rails_admin_tag_list_field', :git => 'https://github.com/kryzhovnik/rails_admin_tag_list_field.git'

And run:

$ bundle install

Usage and Configuration

Gem rails_admin_tag_list_field by default does the following:

1. Register new field type TagList for rails_admin
2. Finds acts_as_taggable_on virtual attributes (like *_list) and adds them to RailsAdmin.config
3. Hides associations created by acts_as_taggable_on

For example, this is your model:

class Player < ActiveRecord::Base
  acts_as_taggable
  acts_as_taggable_on :skills
end

rails_admin_tag_list_field creates the following fields with type of :tag_list: tag_list skill_list

You can do whatever what allows to do by the rails_admin:

rename lable

RailsAdmin.config do |config|
  config.model Player do
    edit do
      field :tag_list do
        label "Tags"
      end
      field :skill_list
    end
  end
end

hide all tag_list fields

RailsAdmin.config do |config|
  config.model Player do
    edit do
      fields_of_type :tag_list do
        hide
      end
    end
  end
end

reassing partial

RailsAdmin.config do |config|
  config.model Player do
    edit do
      fields_of_type :tag_list do
        partial_edit 'awesome_tag_list'
      end
    end
  end
end

Create you custom partial and put it to app/views/rails_admin/main/ in your own project folder