Active Admin resources missing template after upgrade to v1.1.0

Question

ActiveAdmin.register Document do
  controller do
    def create
      create!
    end
  end
end

This was working fine in ActiveAdmin 0.6.6 however after upgrading to v1.1.0 it is unable to find the create template and ActionView::MissingTemplate is thrown:

Missing template documents/create, active_admin/resource/create, active_admin/base/create, inherited_resources/base/create, application/create with {:locale=>[:en], :formats=>[:html], :variants=>[], :handlers=>[:erb, :builder, :raw, :ruby, :coffee, :arb, :haml]}. Searched in:
  * "/Users/ent/Desktop/Apps/vent/app/views"
  * "/Users/ent/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.5.5/gems/activeadmin-1.1.0/app/views"
  * "/Users/ent/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.5.5/gems/kaminari-core-1.1.1/app/views"
  * "/Users/ent/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.5.5/gems/devise_cas_authenticatable-1.10.4/app/views"
  * "/Users/ent/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.5.5/gems/devise-4.6.2/app/views"

Is there anything that has changed since the upgrade that I am missing? I have tried the following versions of active admin: 1.0.0, 1.2.0, 1.2.1, 1.3.0, 1.3.1, 1.4.0, 1.4.1, 1.4.2, 1.4.3 however they all have the same error. Downgrading back to 0.6.6 seems to resolve the issue.

Answer 1

I think it's because create does not typically have it's own view.

To fix it, you can use this construct and instruct controller action what to do on success / failure of the create action. In this example, on success we will redirect to the resource detail, on failure we will render the new view (as most likely the validation of the resource failed and user needs update and resubmit the form):

controller do
  def create
    super do |success, failure|
      success.html { redirect_to your_resource_path(resource), notice: "#{resource.name} has been created." }
      failure.html { render :new }
    end
  end
end