Formtastic
A Rails form builder plugin with semantically rich and accessible markup. (by formtastic)
Reform
Form objects decoupled from models. (by trailblazer)
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| Formtastic | Reform | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 4 | |
| 5,196 | 2,486 | |
| 0.0% | 0.0% | |
| 4.8 | 0.0 | |
| about 2 months ago | 4 months ago | |
| Ruby | Ruby | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
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.
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An Unofficial Active Admin Guide
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.
Reform
Posts with mentions or reviews of Reform.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-12-02.
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what would be the preferred way of creating a form that isn't bound to a model?
There are also specialized gems if you need more : https://github.com/trailblazer/reform
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What's Rails's answer to Django's formsets?
check out Reform
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Don't mix Forwardable and ActiveSupport::Delegate
A day later we received bug reports from several users. All of them were using Reform form objects, the problem was thrown from Reform::Form classes they had in their app.
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How to improve nested attributes params naming for rails API mode?
We use form object design pattern. Specifically this gem: https://github.com/trailblazer/reform
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Formtastic and Reform 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.
Cocoon - Dynamic nested forms using jQuery made easy; works with formtastic, simple_form or default forms
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.
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
Formtastic vs Simple Form
Reform vs Cocoon
Formtastic vs Rails Bootstrap Forms
Reform vs Simple Form
Formtastic vs ActiveForm
Reform vs Rails Bootstrap Forms
Formtastic vs Abracadabra
Reform vs Abracadabra
Formtastic vs ComfyBootstrapForm
Reform vs ActiveForm
Formtastic vs Arbre
Reform vs ComfyBootstrapForm