# \#rails

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## [Smart Fields Not Populating](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/smart-fields-not-populating/8095)

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**Author:** [@amcwustl](https://community.forestadmin.com/u/amcwustl)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [May 15, 2025, 7:43am UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/smart-fields-not-populating/8095 "2025-05-15T07:43:53Z")

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Feature(s) impacted Smart Fields (Virtual Attributes) across all collections. Observed behavior All Smart Fields are displayed as available fields in the Forest Admin UI (e.g., in table layouts, record views, and are re…

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## [Association Associate error](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/association-associate-error/7019)

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**Author:** [@Loic\_Boussiquet](https://community.forestadmin.com/u/Loic_Boussiquet)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [February 1, 2024, 12:45pm UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/association-associate-error/7019 "2024-02-01T12:45:46Z")

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Feature(s) impacted I have a many-to-many relationship between two models, Coupon and Offer, I put a before\_add callback on my association in Coupon to raise an error to indicate you cannot associate Coupon and Offer if …

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## [Override rails model route](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/override-rails-model-route/6376)

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**Author:** [@Logan\_Keenan](https://community.forestadmin.com/u/Logan_Keenan)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [June 22, 2023, 9:06am UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/override-rails-model-route/6376 "2023-06-22T09:06:01Z")

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I’m trying to overriding the update method on a model’s controller. However, I’m unable to return a successful response from the overridden update method. I’ve posted my code below. Forest receives returns an error on s…

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## [\[2023-06-10 10:38:59\] Forest 🌳🌳🌳 You need to enable caching on your environment to use Forest Admin. For a development environment, run: \`rails dev:cache\`](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/2023-06-10-1059-forest-you-need-to-enable-caching-on-your-environment-to-use-forest-admin-for-a-development-environment-run-rails-dev-cache/6390)

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**Author:** [@MikeOcasio](https://community.forestadmin.com/u/MikeOcasio)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [June 13, 2023, 2:45pm UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/2023-06-10-1059-forest-you-need-to-enable-caching-on-your-environment-to-use-forest-admin-for-a-development-environment-run-rails-dev-cache/6390 "2023-06-13T14:45:49Z")

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Feature(s) impacted Dashboard not running due to caching issue. Maybe theres something conflicting. I have inhereted this project from another developer who has since left.. so im all on my own and my ruby skills are not…

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## [Preload associated records](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/preload-associated-records/6168)

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**Author:** [@syan](https://community.forestadmin.com/u/syan)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [April 7, 2023, 4:02pm UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/preload-associated-records/6168 "2023-04-07T16:02:32Z")

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What is the feature? Defining a list of association to include by default when loading the collection, or even a base scope that would be the beginning of any chain of filtering, searching, etc. What problem does this s…

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## [Upgrade to forest\_liana gem 7.0 issue](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/upgrade-to-forest-liana-gem-7-0-issue/5263)

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**Author:** [@nico\_lrx](https://community.forestadmin.com/u/nico_lrx)\
**Replies:** 29\
**Last updated:** [December 7, 2022, 9:03am UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/upgrade-to-forest-liana-gem-7-0-issue/5263 "2022-12-07T09:03:30Z")

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Observed behavior I try to upgrade to forest\_liana v7.0 for my rails app. When I open the Forest dashboard, charts are not showing up anymore: I followed the upgrading instructions. Expected behavior The chart sho…

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## [/forest/sessions returns 404 unable to log in/unlock data](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/forest-sessions-returns-404-unable-to-log-in-unlock-data/5352)

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**Author:** [@webdev.kiwi](https://community.forestadmin.com/u/webdev.kiwi)\
**Replies:** 12\
**Last updated:** [October 12, 2022, 5:17pm UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/forest-sessions-returns-404-unable-to-log-in-unlock-data/5352 "2022-10-12T17:17:06Z")

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Feature(s) impacted Access to forest admin app, user login, can not unlock data. forest\_liana rails gem Observed behavior Can not unlock data, error is returned from rails app. 404 to route myappurl/forest/sessions …

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## [Managing ActiveStorage documents from Forest Admin panel](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/managing-activestorage-documents-from-forest-admin-panel/5312)

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**Author:** [@julien-mathieu](https://community.forestadmin.com/u/julien-mathieu)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [September 29, 2022, 10:24pm UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/managing-activestorage-documents-from-forest-admin-panel/5312 "2022-09-29T22:24:10Z")

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Feature(s) impacted The ability of my ops team to upload and retrieve documents using ActiveStorage blobs from the admin panel Observed behavior There seems to be no understanding of the ActiveStorage data architecture …
