activeadmin_addons VS Formtastic

Compare activeadmin_addons vs Formtastic and see what are their differences.

activeadmin_addons

Extends ActiveAdmin to enable a set of great optional UX improving add-ons (by platanus)

Formtastic

A Rails form builder plugin with semantically rich and accessible markup. (by formtastic)
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activeadmin_addons Formtastic
1 2
739 5,196
0.5% 0.1%
5.9 4.8
about 1 month ago 23 days ago
Ruby Ruby
MIT License MIT License
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activeadmin_addons

Posts with mentions or reviews of activeadmin_addons. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2020-09-29.
  • An Unofficial Active Admin Guide
    16 projects | dev.to | 29 Sep 2020
    Formtastic is a pretty big library, and I would highly recommend reading the detailed README to get acquainted with all customization options. It will also be useful to see the already mentioned activeadmin_addons gem. There are lots of additional inputs in this library that are worth being checked out.

Formtastic

Posts with mentions or reviews of Formtastic. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2020-09-29.
  • An Unofficial Active Admin Guide
    16 projects | dev.to | 29 Sep 2020
    All the parameters required to draw the form (including object and method) are passed to #initialize defined in the module Formtastic::Inputs::Base. The #to_html method is responsible for rendering the input.
    16 projects | dev.to | 29 Sep 2020
    In the example, Formtastic automatically extracts all attributes from the passed object and inserts them into a form with default input types. A list of available input types can be found in the README. Like Arbre, Formtastic can be extended by creating custom component classes. To understand the basics, we'll create a hello world component.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing activeadmin_addons and Formtastic you can also consider the following projects:

Simple Form - Forms made easy for Rails! It's tied to a simple DSL, with no opinion on markup.

Rails Bootstrap Forms - Official repository of the bootstrap_form gem, a Rails form builder that makes it super easy to create beautiful-looking forms using Bootstrap 5.

Reform - Form objects decoupled from models.

ActiveForm - Create nested forms with ease.

Abracadabra

ComfyBootstrapForm - Rails form builder for Bootstrap 4 markup that actually works!

Cocoon - Dynamic nested forms using jQuery made easy; works with formtastic, simple_form or default forms

Arbre - An Object Oriented DOM Tree in Ruby

Countable - Add live paragraph-, word- and character-counting to an HTML element.

inherited_resources

ActiveAdmin - The administration framework for Ruby on Rails applications.

ransack - Object-based searching.