Show booleans in Active Admin as 'Yes' and 'No'

Question

How can I make active admin to show "Yes" and "No" instead of "true" and "false".

I tried to change in english locale but that doesn't work. I'm thinking of monkeypatching boolean classes, but this seems quite ugly.

Is there anything else I can do?

Answer 1

You might like to do something like this:

index do
  id_column
  column(:published) do |story| 
    story.published? ? status_tag( "yes", :ok ) : status_tag( "no" )
  end
end

This will wrap the words "yes" and "no" in status tags which look rather good.

Answer 2

Try to use condition directly in active admin as below

column :column_name do|object|
    object.column_name? ? 'Yes' : 'No'
end

Answer 3

Here, this works, it gives you a tick and cross, but appears to be easy to modify.

https://gist.github.com/2574969

You'll need to restart your rails server for this to work, as it modifies the active_admin.rb initialiser.

Of course it creates a class, which is what you want to avoid, but in the absence of anything else, this does work.

Answer 4

Its very simple,

Suppose your Boolean field name is active,

create a method named status like

def status
  self.active ? "Yes" : "No"
end

Use the status as a normal field in active admin show or index.