Can I customize the delete warning in ActiveAdmin - ruby-on-rails-3

Question

It's common in Rails apps to have the Destroy action come along with a warning - "Are you sure you want to delete this?" The typical code looks like this:
link_to("Destroy", "http://www.example.com", :method => :delete, :confirm => "Are you sure?")
Is there a way in ActiveAdmin to customize the confirmation string for one model only (not globally)? I see that the string is loaded from the active_admin.delete_confirmation translation key. Can the string be model-specific?

Answer 1

Since ActiveAdmin 2.7 model-specific translations can be customized by placing them to active_admin.resources group in en.yml.
active_admin:
resources:
user:
delete_confirmation: Are you sure?

Answer 2

I don't think you can change the string with configuration.
However you can change the default actions:
Index table: https://github.com/activeadmin/active_admin/blob/master/docs/3-index-pages/index-as-table.md
index do
column :title
actions defaults: false do |post|
link_to("Destroy", "http://www.example.com", :method => :delete, :confirm => "Are you sure?")
end
end
Show page: https://github.com/activeadmin/active_admin/blob/master/docs/8-custom-actions.md#action-items
action_item only: :show do
link_to("Destroy", "http://www.example.com", :method => :delete, :confirm => "Are you sure?")
end

Answer 3

You can also overcome this ActiveAdmin limit via Javascript.
Here an example of app/assets/javascripts/active_admin.js:
//= require active_admin/base
$( document ).ready(function() {
$('body.admin_companies a[data-method=delete]').
data('confirm', 'New confirmation text per model Company.\n Ok?');
$('body.admin_users a[data-method=delete]').
data('confirm', 'New confirmation text per model User.\n Ok?');
});
where body.admin_companies is to limit this confirmation message to views of the model Company.
Similar for body.admin_users.
It works both on #index and #show.
The only downside is that it doesn't play well with i18n (if you need multilanguage avoid this solution).