Arbre VS Formtastic

Compare Arbre vs Formtastic and see what are their differences.

Arbre

An Object Oriented DOM Tree in Ruby (by activeadmin)

Formtastic

A Rails form builder plugin with semantically rich and accessible markup. (by formtastic)
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Arbre Formtastic
3 2
745 5,196
0.1% 0.1%
8.6 4.8
8 days ago 23 days ago
Ruby Ruby
MIT License MIT License
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Arbre

Posts with mentions or reviews of Arbre. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-24.
  • Anyone tried Django? How does it compare to RoR?
    3 projects | /r/rails | 24 Jun 2023
    Why use ActiveAdmin or RailsAdmin: Brick is not nearly as configurable -- at least yet! With Brick you can drop in your own model / controller / view template and it will use it, but on its own you can not change theming / use it to do templating tricks / etc. Currently working hard to arrive upon a straightforward and logical approach so that all of this will be possible. Looking into Arbre (used by ActiveAdmin) and Phlex for inspiration.
  • View code coverage (active_admin and orther .arb file)
    2 projects | /r/rails | 14 Sep 2022
    for those who know [https://activeadmin.info/](https://activeadmin.info/) it uses a file format [https://github.com/activeadmin/arbre](https://github.com/activeadmin/arbre)
  • An Unofficial Active Admin Guide
    16 projects | dev.to | 29 Sep 2020
    Like all Arbre components, our Admin::Components::HelloWorld inherits from Arbre::Component class:

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 Arbre 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.

Haml - HTML Abstraction Markup Language - A Markup Haiku

Tilt - Generic interface to multiple Ruby template engines

Fortitude - Views Are Code: use all the power of Ruby to build views in your own language.

Liquid - Liquid markup language. Safe, customer facing template language for flexible web apps.

Abracadabra

Curly - The Curly template language allows separating your logic from the structure of your HTML templates.

Hamlit - High Performance Haml Implementation

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