How to customize the displayed text for an associated model?

[marisawallace]

At https://administrate-prototype.herokuapp.com/admin/orders it looks like each order belongs to a Customer. This association is rendered nicely as:

Within my own app, I have a similar relationship: Student belongs to School. After setting up Administrate within my own app, I see the following out-of-the-box:

Instead of displaying #<School:0x0000000aa98080> or similar, I want to customize the link text based on the attributes of that school model (similar to the prototype, which uses the Customer's full name). How can I do this? The docs at http://administrate-docs.herokuapp.com/ don't seem to cover this.

[c-lliope]

@maxkwallace you're right - we need to add that to our docs. Right now, every model is displayed using its to_s method - you can define School#to_s to display whatever you like there.

[c-lliope]

I'm going to close this issue for now - it overlaps a fair bit with #129. If you have any more questions around it, feel free to open it back up!

[marisawallace]

@Graysonwright Sounds good. Thanks for the tip!

[tquill]

Thank you. I had this question too.