ActiveRecord Parity: Support Simple Form in Mongoid

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    • Type: New Feature
    • Resolution: Unresolved
    • Priority: Major - P3
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    • Affects Version/s: None
    • Component/s: Integrations, Rails
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      Background

      Simple Form is a widely-used gem with over 8000 stars on Github. The `f.association` syntax is broken Mongoid, which works with ActiveRecord. Refer to these issues:

      "Making Mongoid easier for new users" appears to be a topic the MongoDB team is interested in. Fixing issues which new users are likely to encounter when making new apps will increase user satisfaction.

      Possible Fix

      I was able to fix the #1609 with the following Monkey patch, This could be added to Mongoid's codebase with a @note comment on the methods to explain why they are needed. Alternatively, we could raise a patch to SimpleForm itself.

       

      module Mongoid
  module Association
    module Relatable
      def macro
        ''
      end
    end
    module Referenced
      class BelongsTo
        def macro
          :belongs_to
        end
      end
      class EmbeddedIn
        def macro
          :embedded_in
        end
      end
      class EmbedsOne
        def macro
          :embeds_one
        end
      end
      class EmbedsMany
        def macro
          :embeds_many
        end
      end
      class HasAndBelongsToMany
        def macro
          :has_and_belongs_to_many
        end
      end
      class HasMany
        def macro
          :has_many
        end
      end
      class HasOne
        def macro
          :has_one
        end
      end
    end
  end
end

            Assignee:
            Dmitry Rybakov
            Reporter:
            Johnny Shields
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