Active Admin: Customize only new form

Question

I'm using Active Admin to provide an admin to some models. I need to provide a customized new form for one of them, but leave the edit form as the default provided by Active Admin. Here's what I have. It works in that it is giving me the new form I want, but the edit form is also using the new form, which is not what I want:

ActiveAdmin.register Document do
  form :partial => 'form'
end

I've tried this, but it gives an error that 'new' is an undefined method:

ActiveAdmin.register Document do
  new do
    form :partial => 'form'
  end
end

Answer 1

If you just want to hide or show certain fields on the new form (e.g. a field that you generate automatically in the model using before_create), you can do this:

form do |f|
    f.inputs "Member Details" do
        f.input :first_name
        f.input :last_name
        f.input :email
        if !f.object.new_record?
            f.input :password
            f.input :password_confirmation
        end
    end
    f.button :Submit
end

This will hide the password fields when you create a new member in the event that you automatically generate passwords the first time the member is created.