Polymorphic filter select

app/assets/javascripts/rails_admin/ra.filtering-select.js

@@ -31,21 +31,22 @@
     button: null,
     input: null,
     select: null,
+    filtering_select: null,
 
     _create: function() {
-      var filtering_select = this.element.siblings(
+      this.filtering_select = this.element.siblings(
         '[data-input-for="' + this.element.attr('id') + '"]'
       );
 
       // When using the browser back and forward buttons, it is possible that
       // the autocomplete field will be cached which causes duplicate fields
       // to be generated.
-      if (filtering_select.length > 0) {
-        this.input = filtering_select.children('input');
-        this.button = filtering_select.children('.input-group-btn');
+      if (this.filtering_select.length > 0) {
+        this.input = this.filtering_select.children('input');
+        this.button = this.filtering_select.children('.input-group-btn');
       } else {
         this.element.hide();
-        filtering_select = this._inputGroup(this.element.attr('id'));
+        this.filtering_select = this._inputGroup(this.element.attr('id'));
         this.input = this._inputField();
         this.button = this._buttonField();
       }
@@ -56,7 +57,7 @@
       this._overloadRenderItem();
       this._autocompleteDropdownEvent(this.button);
 
-      return filtering_select.append(this.input)
+      return this.filtering_select.append(this.input)
         .append(this.button)
         .insertAfter(this.element);
     },
@@ -201,7 +202,7 @@
       return $('<div>')
         .addClass('input-group filtering-select col-sm-2')
         .attr('data-input-for', inputFor)
-        .css('float', 'left');
+        .css('float', this.element.css("float"));
     },
 
     _initAutocomplete: function() {
@@ -286,6 +287,7 @@
       this.input.remove();
       this.button.remove();
       this.element.show();
+      this.filtering_select.remove();
       $.Widget.prototype.destroy.call(this);
     }
   });

app/assets/javascripts/rails_admin/ra.widgets.coffee

@@ -168,25 +168,13 @@ $(document).on 'rails_admin.dom_ready', (e, content) ->
       field = type_select.parents('.control-group').first()
       object_select = field.find('select').last()
       urls = type_select.data('urls')
+
       type_select.on 'change', (e) ->
-        if $(this).val() is ''
-          object_select.html('<option value=""></option>')
-        else
-          $.ajax
-            url: urls[type_select.val()]
-            data:
-              compact: true
-              all: true
-            beforeSend: (xhr) ->
-              xhr.setRequestHeader("Accept", "application/json")
-            success: (data, status, xhr) ->
-              html = $('<option></option>')
-              $(data).each (i, el) ->
-                option = $('<option></option>')
-                option.attr('value', el.id)
-                option.text(el.label)
-                html = html.add(option)
-              object_select.html(html)
+        selected_type = type_select.val().toLowerCase()
+        selected_data = $("##{selected_type}-js-options").data('options')
+        object_select.data('options', selected_data)
+        object_select.filteringSelect("destroy")
+        object_select.filteringSelect selected_data
 
 
     # simplemde

app/views/rails_admin/main/_form_polymorphic_association.html.haml

@@ -2,10 +2,25 @@
   type_collection = field.polymorphic_type_collection
   type_column = field.association.foreign_type.to_s
   selected_type = field.bindings[:object].send(type_column)
-  collection = field.associated_collection(selected_type)
   selected = field.bindings[:object].send(field.association.name)
+  collection = selected ? [[field.formatted_value, selected.id]] : [[]]
   column_type_dom_id = form.dom_id(field).sub(field.method_name.to_s, type_column)
+  current_action = params[:action].in?(['create', 'new']) ? 'create' : 'update'
+
+  default_options = { float_left: false }
+
+  js_data = type_collection.inject({}) do |options, model|
+    model_name = model.second.underscore.downcase
+    source_abstract_model = RailsAdmin.config(form.object.class).abstract_model
+    options.merge(model_name.gsub("_", "") => {
+      xhr: true,
+      remote_source: index_path(model_name, source_object_id: form.object.id, source_abstract_model: source_abstract_model.to_param, current_action: current_action, compact: true),
+      float_left: false
+    })
+  end
 
 .form-inline
-  = form.select type_column, type_collection, {include_blank: true, selected: selected_type}, class: "form-control", id: column_type_dom_id, data: { polymorphic: true, urls: field.polymorphic_type_urls.to_json }
-  = form.select field.method_name, collection, {include_blank: true, selected: selected.try(:id)}, class: "form-control"
+  - js_data.each do |model, value|
+    %div{id: "#{model}-js-options", data: { options: value.to_json } }
+  = form.select type_column, type_collection, {include_blank: true, selected: selected_type}, class: "form-control", id: column_type_dom_id, data: { polymorphic: true, urls: field.polymorphic_type_urls.to_json }, style: "float: left; margin-right: 10px;"
+  = form.select field.method_name, collection, {include_blank: true, selected: selected.try(:id)}, class: "form-control", data: { filteringselect: true, options: js_data[selected_type.try(:downcase)] || default_options }, placeholder: 'Search'