Formtastic vs activeadmin_addons

Formtastic

A Rails form builder plugin with semantically rich and accessible markup. (by formtastic)

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activeadmin_addons

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

Rails Activeadmin Admin Admin Interface admin-dashboard

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Formtastic		activeadmin_addons
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2	Mentions	1
5,196	Stars	746
0.0%	Growth	0.8%
4.8	Activity	4.8
2 months ago	Latest Commit	21 days ago
Ruby	Language	Ruby
MIT License	License	MIT License

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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.

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.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Formtastic and activeadmin_addons 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.

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

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.

inherited_resources

Reform - Form objects decoupled from models.

ActiveAdmin - The administration framework for Ruby on Rails applications.

ActiveForm - Create nested forms with ease.

ransack - Object-based searching.

Abracadabra

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.

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

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