On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 12:24:35PM +0200, Imre Farkas wrote: > > I played with simple_form to get an idea of how difficult the markup > is to implement. > > Step 1: Created a new wrapper. You can find the code here: > https://gist.github.com/bf366db929ee55af7e82 > Step 2: Created a new simple_form component for other fields e.g. > 'note': https://gist.github.com/3358420 > Step 3: Change the default wrapper for simple_form in the > initializer: config.default_wrapper = :conductor > > After these steps, implementing a form is pretty easy: > = simple_form_for(@post) do |f| > = f.input :title, :placeholder => 'placeholder', > :hint => 'hint', > :note => 'note'
That's pretty much perfect, IMHO. It separates style-related markup from forms, and means that throwing together a form will result in the right thing happening by default. I think that's exactly what we want. > The added benefit of simple_form is that you will automatically get > the require/optional class for the inputs for free based on the > validations of the model (You can override them via options if > necessary). The same applies for the maxlength attribute of the input > field. Developers won't need to implement the markup Jarda created, > but using a simple api call would do the magic. I was wondering how that would work. That would be really nifty. -- Matt
