Rails: activeadmin overriding create action
I ran into a similar situation where I didn't really need to completely override the create method. I really only wanted to inject properties before save, and only on create; very similar to your example. After reading through the ActiveAdmin source, I determined that I could use before_create to do what I needed:
ActiveAdmin.register Product do before_create do |product| product.creator = current_user endend
Another option:
def create params[:item].merge!({ user_id: current_curator.id }) create!end
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