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
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743 5,195
0.7% 0.0%
5.9 4.8
4 days ago about 1 month 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.

What are some alternatives?

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

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

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

inherited_resources

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.

ActiveAdmin - The administration framework for Ruby on Rails applications.

Reform - Form objects decoupled from models.

ransack - Object-based searching.

ActiveForm - Create nested forms with ease.

motor-admin-rails - Low-code Admin panel and Business intelligence Rails engine. No DSL - configurable from the UI. Rails Admin, Active Admin, Blazer modern alternative.

Abracadabra

super - A simple, powerful, zero dependency Rails admin framework

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