Activeadmin formtastic dynamic select

Question

I would like to make a dynamic select option via Activeadmin\'s formtastic like so:

  form do |f|
    f.inputs \"Exam Registration Details\" do
             


        

Answer 1

SOLVED

For anyone else wrestling with the same problem, look at this railscast

here's how I implemented multiple dynamic select menus in activeadmin:

config/initializers/active_admin.rb

  config.register_javascript 'exam_registrations.js.coffee'

app/admin/exam_registrations.rb

  form do |f|
    f.inputs "Exam Registration Details" do
      f.input :user_id, :label => 'Teacher', :as => :select, :collection => User.where(:admin => 'false', :active => true).order(:name), :include_blank => true
      f.input :student_id, :hint => 'Students grouped by teacher names', :as => :select, :collection => option_groups_from_collection_for_select(User.where(:admin => false, :active => true).order(:name), :students, :name, :id, :name)
      f.input :lesson_id, :hint => 'Lessons grouped by student names', :as => :select, :collection => option_groups_from_collection_for_select(Student.where(:active => true).order(:name), :lessons, :name, :id, :name)
    end
    f.buttons
  end

app/assets/javascripts/exam_registrations.js.coffee

#first menu    
jQuery ->
      $('#exam_registration_student_id').parent().hide()
      students = $('#exam_registration_student_id').html()
      $('#exam_registration_user_id').change ->
        user = $('#exam_registration_user_id :selected').text()
        escaped_user = user.replace(/([ #;&,.+*~\':"!^$[\]()=>|\/@])/g, '\\$1')
        options = $(students).filter("optgroup[label='#{escaped_user}']").html()
        if options
          $('#exam_registration_student_id').html(options)
          $('#exam_registration_student_id').parent().show()
        else
          $('#exam_registration_student_id').empty()
          $('#exam_registration_lesson_id').empty()

# second menu
  $('#exam_registration_lesson_id').parent().hide()
  lessons = $('#exam_registration_lesson_id').html()
  $('#exam_registration_student_id').click ->
    student = $('#exam_registration_student_id :selected').text()
    escaped_student = student.replace(/([ #;&,.+*~\':"!^$[\]()=>|\/@])/g, '\\$1')
    options = $(lessons).filter("optgroup[label='#{escaped_student}']").html()
    if options
      $('#exam_registration_lesson_id').html(options)
      $('#exam_registration_lesson_id').parent().show()
    else
      $('#exam_registration_lesson_id').empty()

restart the server and the menus work!