ActiveForm plugin

Published at: 24.IX.2007 21:49 CET
Categories: active_form, english, plugin, rails
Comments: 2 pieces

Last week at RailsConf Europe I met some people who are using my ActiveForm code to make forms in their Rails sites. It’s about time to wrap it up as a plugin, so here it is.

From the README:
This plugin provides a base class for making forms with ActiveRecord validations without having a corresponding database table. You can use ActiveForm for:
  • making forms which don’t needed storage, like simple email forms
  • provide extra validations on existing ActiveRecord models
  • make forms for composite objects
Installation: 
script/plugin install http://svn.remvee.net/plugins/active_form

I know, there already is a plugin called active_form but I don’t like it. It doesn’t provide a “real” AR object causing all kinds of things to not work (like ActiveRecordHelper#form and DateHelper#datetime_select for instance), it doesn’t include any tests and my version is a lot simpler (flog score 20 versus 74).

Why not change the name? I like it! If you can come up with something better, please leave a comment.