Teacher

Ben

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Josh Rohrbaugh

Mike

Radobice

May 1, 2014

Using SimpleForm for well... simplifying forms

Getting input from users is at the core of any application. This week we're going to play with simple_form as an easy way to build our custom forms.

simple_form lets us clean up the ugly default scaffolded view code in all those _form.html.erb partials, and replace it with clean semantic code.

Pre-Requisites

We're going to start with https://github.com/rails-school/simple_tracker, which assumes you have ruby-2.1.1 installed (rvm install ruby-2.1.1). After running the following, you should be able to browse to http://localhost:3000 to see a mostly empty application:

> git clone https://github.com/rails-school/simple_tracker
> cd simple_tracker
> bundle install
> rails server

In case you're interested, this repo was created by:

following the README on https://github.com/RailsApps/rails_apps_composer to create a new bootstrap+rails+slim app
adding gem simple_form to the Gemfile and running bundle install
running rails g simple_form:install

References

simple_form Github page

RailsCast on simple_form

Formtastic, a similar library that you may prefer

2:30pm Pacific - 4:30pm Pacific on May 1, 2014 at Coshx Labs