lib/tabular_form_builder.rb @@ -7,8 +7,10 @@ this plugin is intended to help in creating forms. its featureset will grow in t * there is a helper method available in the views that prints out the label for a field with our without star +* a TabularForumBuilder class which can be used with the form_for rails helper. It automatically wraps all form fields in table rows and cells. -Example + +Examples ======= # user.rb @@ -33,7 +35,34 @@ User.required_field?(:email) # => false <%= label_fu @user, :name %> # => <label for="user_name">Name *</label> <%= label_fu @user, :email %> # => <label for="user_email">Email</label> +# or with the form builder + +<%- form_for :user, :builder => TabularFormBuilder do |f| -%> + <table> + <%= f.text_field :name %> + </table> +<%- end -%> + +# prints out: + +<form ...> + <table> + <tr> + <th><label for="user_name">Name: *</label></th> + <td><input name="user[name]" type="text"/></td> + </tr> + </table> +</form> + +# some added sugar: + +<%= f.text_fields :email, :name, :address %> + +# call text_field for each of the attributes + +<%= f.text_field_without_label :name %> +# prints out the input tag without the tr, td and label - in case you need more customization For questions, patches etc. contact alex[at]upstream-berlin.com README @@ -1,2 +1,4 @@ require 'validation_reflection' +require 'tabular_form_builder' +require 'forms_fu_helper' ActionController::Base.helper(FormsFuHelper) init.rb @@ -2,5 +2,15 @@ module FormsFuHelper def label_fu(model, field_name) "<label for=\"#{model.class.to_s.dasherize}_#{field_name}\">#{field_name.to_s.humanize} #{'*' if model.class.required_field?(field_name)}</label>" end +end + +ActionView::Helpers::FormBuilder.class_eval do + include FormsFuHelper -end \ No newline at end of file + def label_fu_with_form_builder(field_name) + label_fu_without_form_builder object, field_name + end + + alias_method_chain :label_fu, :form_builder +end + lib/forms_fu_helper.rb 42f4101404829c5ae7cebf2eca94a6d1e3079c41 Alexander Lang alex@skywalker.(none) http://github.com/langalex/forms-fu/commit/148beee065627a92cab7c1aa1c1e38f20c2f35ea 148beee065627a92cab7c1aa1c1e38f20c2f35ea 2008-04-24T02:15:21-07:00 2008-04-24T02:15:21-07:00 added the TabularFormBuilder which wraps form fields in table rows and cells and automatically adds the label d60e1d2f16ee74e8abb876652014131ceedd6e22 Alexander Lang alex@skywalker.(none)