How to Properly Configure Rails 4.1 Enums in ActiveAdmin

Question

I\'ve got a Rails 4.1 app in which I use an enum to represent the privacy level of an object.

In my schema:

t.integer \"privacy_level\", default: 0
         


        

Answer 1

Building off of Jack's answer, here's what worked for me. Say your ActiveRecord model is Tweets:

f.input :privacy_level, as: :select, collection: Tweet.privacy_levels.keys

Key things to note here:

• your ActiveRecord has a useful dictionary (available at enum_name.pluralize) of enum keys to values.
• using strings (and ignoring the underlying integer representation) makes it easier to write to the enum value.