Formtastic VS Rails Bootstrap Forms

Compare Formtastic vs Rails Bootstrap Forms and see what are their differences.

Formtastic

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

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. (by bootstrap-ruby)
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Formtastic Rails Bootstrap Forms
2 1
5,196 1,623
0.0% 0.7%
4.8 7.9
about 2 months ago 24 days ago
Ruby Ruby
MIT 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.

Rails Bootstrap Forms

Posts with mentions or reviews of Rails Bootstrap Forms. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-25.
  • Rails scaffold templates
    2 projects | dev.to | 25 Nov 2022
    Next, let’s change our view templates. I don’t like current ones so I took templates from rails 6.x and updated it for my needs (for bootstrap based project I’ve taken bootstrap_form gem and have changed ujs-dependent code to use hotwire). I’ve created directory lib/templates/erb/scaffold and placed my _form.html.erb.tt, edit.html.erb.tt, index.html.erb.tt, partial.html.erb.tt, new.html.erb.tt, show.html.erb.tt to that location. You can find my code below

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Formtastic and Rails Bootstrap Forms 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.

Reform - Form objects decoupled from models.

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

ActiveForm - Create nested forms with ease.

Abracadabra

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

Arbre - An Object Oriented DOM Tree in Ruby