https://github.com/langalex/forms-fu

enhanced form handling for rails applications
https://github.com/langalex/forms-fu

Last synced: about 1 month ago
JSON representation

enhanced form handling for rails applications

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/langalex/forms-fu
• Owner: langalex
• License: mit
• Created: 2008-04-11T13:08:41.000Z (almost 17 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2008-07-15T16:36:58.000Z (over 16 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-04-13T09:17:55.245Z (9 months ago)
• Language: Ruby
• Homepage: http://upstream-berlin.com/blog/open-source/#forms_fu
• Size: 78.1 KB
• Stars: 7
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README
  • License: MIT-LICENSE

Awesome Lists containing this project

README

        
forms-fu

======================

this plugin is intended to help in creating forms. its featureset will grow in the near future. for now it can do this:

* adds a required_field?(field_name) method to all the activerecord models. this allows you to automatically mark required fields in a form with a *. required fields are determined automatically from the validates_* calls in the class.

* there is a helper method available in the views that prints out the label for a field with our without star

* a TabularForumBuilder class which can be used with the form_for rails helper. It automatically wraps all form fields in table rows and cells.

Examples

=======

# user.rb

class User < ActiveRecord::Base

  validates_presence_of :name

  validates_confirmation_of :password

  validates_acceptance_of :terms

  

  required_fields << [:login] # in case you want to mark additional fields as required

end

User.required_field?(:name) # => true

User.required_field?(:login) # => true

User.required_field?(:password_confirmation) # => true

User.required_field?(:terms) # => true

User.required_field?(:email) # => false

# users/new.html.erb

<%= label_fu @user, :name %> # => Name *

<%= label_fu @user, :email %> # => Email

# or with the form builder

<%- form_for :user, :builder => TabularFormBuilder do |f| -%>

  

  <%= f.text_field :name %>

  

<%- end -%>

# prints out:

  

    

      Name: *

      

    

  

# some added sugar:

<%= f.text_fields :email, :name, :address %>

# call text_field for each of the attributes

<%= f.text_field_without_label :name %>

# prints out the input tag without the tr, td and label - in case you need more customization

For questions, patches etc. contact alex[at]upstream-berlin.com

Copyright (c) 2008 Alexander Lang, released under the MIT license