I don't know if I grap the idea of the helpers in full - could you explain their functions here in short? For me it looks like they just create form elements just like the $w->element('...', '...') does. There is something also about using them for the updates - could you a bit elaborate on that? HTML::Widget also works on the update side - at least can check the constraints, but it does not set values of an object - do the RoR helpers?
In related news I am working on Catalyst::Example::InstantCRUD - a kind of scaffolding for Catalyst with DBIx::Class as persistance layer. It has some code to autogenerate the forms from the DBIx::Class schema - but I am not happy with it and just now I am restructuring it to use a config, generated from the schema instead of using the schema directly.
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On 9/20/06, Jon Warbrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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
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