This gem provides an easy integration between the awesome state_machine and active_admin gems.

• rails 6.0+
• active_admin 2.x
• state_machine 1.2

This gem provides you with a DSL extension to ActiveAdmin that allows you to easily define action item buttons for your resource to transition through your state_machine.

• Integration with ActiveAdmin authorization adapater layer - the button won't show if the user isn't authorized
• Provide custom permission to authorize against
• Provide confirmation message to prompt user before performing
• Button only shown if state_machine can transition
• Localizable button titles and flash messages
• Pass a block to customize the behavior

This gem requires both active_admin and state_machine. Add the gem to your Gemfile to get started and bundle.

gem 'active_admin-state_machine'

You will need to define a state_machine in a model, and have that model registered as a resource with ActiveAdmin.

A basic model

# app/models/post.rb
class Post < ActiveRecord::Base
  attr_accessible :body, :status, :title

  validates :title, presence: true, uniqueness: true
  validates :body, presence: true

  DRAFT = 'draft'
  REVIEWED = 'reviewed'
  PUBLISHED = 'published'

  state_machine :status, initial: DRAFT do
    event :peer_review do
      transition DRAFT => REVIEWED
    end

    event :publish do
      transition REVIEWED => PUBLISHED
    end
  end
end

Corresponding ActiveAdmin resource

ActiveAdmin.register Post do

  state_action :peer_review
  state_action :publish

  form do |f|
    f.inputs "Post Details" do
      f.input :title
      f.input :body
    end
    f.actions
  end

end

In the above example, the state_action method is defined by this gem and provides you with the following functionality:

1. The :peer_review is assumed to be an event in your state_machine definition on the Post model.
2. Calling state_action will add an action item button to your ActiveAdmin resource on the #show page, if the user is authorized to perform this action via the ActiveAdmin authorization adapter, and if the resource itself returns true to #can_peer_review?, which is provided by default with this event in state_machine.
3. Clicking the button will call #peer_review! on the resource, and redirect you back to smart_resource_url.
4. Fully localizable, provide translations for "posts.peer_review.label"for the button title and "posts.peer_review.flash.success for the flash message when completed.
5. You can pass a block to customize this behavior.

ActiveAdmin.register Post do

  state_action :peer_review

  # Block to be called when submitted
  state_action :publish do
    PostPublicationService.publish!(resource)
    flash[:notice] = "Post published"
    redirect_to collection_path
  end

end

ActiveAdmin.register Post do

  # by default, permission would be :peer_review
  state_action :peer_review, permission: :read
end

ActiveAdmin.register Post do

  # Lookup 'posts.peer_review.prompt'
  state_action :peer_review, confirm: :true

  # Pass proc
  state_action :peer_review, confirm: ->{ I18n.t("posts.peer_review.confirm") }
end

If you really want to use without a state_machine on your model, you essentially just need to provide the following methods, contining with our :peer_review example:

class Post < ActiveRecord::Base
  def can_peer_review?
    author.present? && !published?
  end

  def peer_review!
    self.published_at = Time.now
    save!
  end
end

Included is a dummy rails 6 application that includes some basic ability management, a few models and the ActiveAdmin UI.

This is used in the test suite for integration testing, but is also usable if you're interested in using yourself.

First fork the repo and clone to your machine for development.

Then setup the rails app for development.

$> bundle install
$> rails db:setup

This will run the seeds.rb file from the dummy application, creating 2 users that can be used to login to the development server.

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The password is password for both, and abilitys are defined in cancancan for the dummy site.

To start the development rails server

$> bundle install
$> bin/rails s
$> open http://localhost:3000/admin

Login with the credentials from seeds.rb mentioned above.

The test suite can be run via rspec.

$> bundle exec rspec spec

Please ensure that any pull requests pass the test suite locally before submitting a PR.