Series
In this series I will explore the current state of form helpers; what's amazing about them and what needs improvement. By the end, we'll explore a solution that might bring a new era for form helpers.
I've had this idea in the back of my head for a while that can potentially unlock a bunch of possibilities with Rails' Form Helpers. But to present it, I want to write about what you can do with them today, the limitations and what I want as a develo...
In the previous article, I mentioned that Action View has some component-like classes that render form elements. Let's deep dive into a simple one: Tags::TextField. This class is used in the FormBuilder like so (source): def text_field(object_name, m...
In the previous article, I said I believe splitting up the responsibility of building attributes from the actual rendering of HTML can open up many interesting possibilities. But the work to do so might not be that simple. I've been working on this o...
In my last article, I published about the birth of AttributeBuidlers and since then I've worked some more on the project and decided that it was time to get it out there – even in its unfinished and incomplete form– in hopes that someone will try it ...