Simple Form
Forms made easy for Rails! It's tied to a simple DSL, with no opinion on markup. (by heartcombo)
Formtastic
A Rails form builder plugin with semantically rich and accessible markup. (by formtastic)
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Simple Form | Formtastic | |
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13 | 2 | |
8,188 | 5,196 | |
0.1% | 0.1% | |
4.3 | 4.8 | |
9 days ago | 23 days ago | |
Ruby | Ruby | |
MIT License | MIT License |
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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.
Simple Form
Posts with mentions or reviews of Simple Form.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-23.
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Internationalize and Humanize your Ruby on Rails application
I also tend to use gems like simple_form to generate my form HTML, and this saves me from having to maintain a lot of view code to outputting translated content onto forms. Also simple_form has it's own i18n convention that compliments the Rails default pretty well.
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#1 Made easy form in Rails with Simple Form - Gem Weekly
There are many ways to create a form in Rails, whether you want to create a form with Form builder from Rails itself or maybe using third party gem like simple_form. Of course, simple_form is not the only option we have to build form in rails, there are alternatives out there such as formtastic, cocoon, nested_form, etc. However, in this post I'm going to give you a basic use case to use simple_form in Rails application.
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Styling Simple Form forms with Tailwind
Simple Form gem
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From partials to ViewComponents: writing reusable front-end code in Rails
The biggest unclear area that we saw related to view components were forms. There were glimpses of compatibility issues with Rails form helpers in the documentation and we saw a recent effort of the team to mitigate them. Moreover, we were used to building forms with Simple Form which added another variable to the equation. And, in general, we considered the Rails form builders (as well as the Simple Form builder) a system of form-related components in the first place so we were unsure how this would fit into the View Components ecosystem or whether we should even try to do that.
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Form error in a rails view
Consider slim: "Slim - A Fast, Lightweight Template Engine for Ruby" http://slim-lang.com and simple_form "GitHub - heartcombo/simple_form: Forms made easy for Rails! It's tied to a simple DSL, with no opinion on markup." https://github.com/heartcombo/simple_form
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RoR Gems: Pin To Plane For Developing RoR Application
8. Simple Form
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.
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 Simple Form and Formtastic you can also consider the following projects:
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.
Cocoon - Dynamic nested forms using jQuery made easy; works with formtastic, simple_form or default forms
Reform - Form objects decoupled from models.
ActiveForm - Create nested forms with ease.
Abracadabra
ComfyBootstrapForm - Rails form builder for Bootstrap 4 markup that actually works!
Haml - HTML Abstraction Markup Language - A Markup Haiku
Slim - Slim is a template language whose goal is to reduce the syntax to the essential parts without becoming cryptic.