inherited_resources VS Formtastic

Compare inherited_resources vs Formtastic and see what are their differences.

Formtastic

A Rails form builder plugin with semantically rich and accessible markup. (by formtastic)
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inherited_resources Formtastic
3 2
2,706 5,195
0.1% 0.0%
8.1 4.8
18 days ago about 1 month ago
Ruby Ruby
MIT License MIT License
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inherited_resources

Posts with mentions or reviews of inherited_resources. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-11-10.
  • Admin Framework for Rails
    10 projects | /r/rails | 10 Nov 2021
    Until recently, my default Admin was ActiveAdmin library. But I found it a bit challenging onboarding new engineers with Inherited Resources gem. Also, a lot is changed on the frontend side with webpack, and now esbuild. I would like to use TailwindCSS to simplify the development. IMHO, ActiveAdmin legacy makes it way more complicated for customization to a new project.
  • An Unofficial Active Admin Guide
    16 projects | dev.to | 29 Sep 2020
    All Active Admin controllers are inherited from InheritedResources::Base, which means that we can modify their behavior using library methods. For example, here is how the list of available controller actions is defined:

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 inherited_resources and Formtastic you can also consider the following projects:

esbuild-rails - Bundle and transpile JavaScript in Rails with esbuild

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

madmin - A robust Admin Interface for Ruby on Rails apps

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_addons - Extends ActiveAdmin to enable a set of great optional UX improving add-ons

Reform - Form objects decoupled from models.

ActiveAdmin - The administration framework for Ruby on Rails applications.

ActiveForm - Create nested forms with ease.

RailsAdmin - RailsAdmin is a Rails engine that provides an easy-to-use interface for managing your data

Abracadabra

ransack - Object-based searching.

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