Videos tagged with Mastering Rails Forms

Rails applications often contain many different forms, leading to lots of repetitive code. Reading and maintaining that code slows you down. In this episode, we’ll create a form builder to clean up our form code, and add some useful features along the way. Having all the form markup in one place means you can easily change the style of every form in your application. You’ll learn ho...

Good forms help a user when trouble strikes. The default form error presentation is a start, but you should customize how form errors are presented to fit the needs of your users. Unfortunately, it’s not always obvious how to fully customize what Rails gives you. In this episode, we’ll completely customize the content of validation error messages and how form errors are displayed. W...

We’ll start by building a search form, and then move on to a form for ordering custom pizzas. The pizza form starts out with a simple text field and checkbox, but ends up with a pull-down menu for the pizza crust type (a one-to-many association) and a group of checkboxes for the pizza toppings (a many-to-many association). You’ll learn how to: use various form helpers to create form...

Forms are crucial to how users interact with your site. You can slap a form on a web page in record time with Rails, but basic forms just get you by. For a better user experience, you’ll want to customize your forms and create interplay between your models. Learn how to take your forms to the next level from Ryan Bates, one of the most experienced Rails programmers (and screencasters) in ...