I've always admired the form helpers used by Rails (see [1]) - essentially helpers for use in templates for creating form controls that are linked to underlying model objects so that they can be pre-populated and so that the controls can be named to make subsequent update of the objects easy. It strikes me that something like this could be useful when creating forms that are more complex then solutions like HTMLWidget can conveniently cope with.
Catalyst-Plugin-Params-Nested already provides support for something very like the Rails naming scheme, but I can't see anything that provides anything like the helpers themselves. Before I start creating something, probably as a DBIx::Class component, please can anyone tell me if I'm re-inventing the wheel? Jon. [1] http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/FormHelper.html#M000389 -- Jon Warbrick Web/News Development, Computing Service, University of Cambridge _______________________________________________ List: [email protected] Listinfo: http://lists.rawmode.org/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
