formtastic

GitHub describes it as A Rails form builder plugin with semantically rich and accessible markup.. The repository metadata lists Ruby as its primary language. The metadata lists the MIT license. This article stays within the project description and details documented in the GitHub repository README.

GitHub describes it as A Rails form builder plugin with semantically rich and accessible markup.. The repository metadata lists Ruby as its primary language. The metadata lists the MIT license. The README describes the project this way: Formtastic is a Rails FormBuilder DSL (with some other goodies) to make it far easier to create beautiful, semantically rich, syntactically awesome, readily stylable and wonderfully accessible HTML forms in your Rails applications.

The README section "Compatibility" states: Formtastic 6.x requires Rails 7.2 and Ruby 3.1 minimum, inline with Rails minimum supported versions Formtastic 5.x requires Rails 6.0 and Ruby 2.6 minimum Formtastic, much like Rails, is very ActiveRecord-centric. Many are successfully using other ActiveModel-like ORMs and objects (DataMapper, MongoMapper, Mongoid, Authlogic, Devise...) but we're not guaranteeing full compatibility at this stage. Patches are welcome!

The README section "The Story" states: One day, I finally had enough, so I opened up my text editor, and wrote a DSL for how I'd like to author forms:

The README section "The Story" states: I also wrote the accompanying HTML output I expected, favoring something very similar to the fieldsets, lists and other semantic elements Aaron Gustafson presented in Learning to Love Forms, hacking together enough Ruby to prove it could be done.

The repository README is the source for this review. It does not replace a local installation or an independent test.

• Source 1 · Project repository
• Source 2 · README