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DesignerFriendly ================ Designer friendly is aimed at making it easier for designers to style the various inputs types used within rails forms. By providing different custom form builders which render out partials it is easier for a designer to provide a number of form styles that may be used within an application. This plugin does not have any unit tests at this point and has only been developed against edge rails. Just as an ass covering excerise I have yet to test this properly with various different input types, especially checkboxes, dropdowns and radio buttons. Use, experiment, modify at your own risk. It is more a proof of concept that needs taking further UPDATE 2009-02-17: check box inputs work fine. Have added in an example checkbox template - rerun generator to include in application. Usage ===== To generate a custom form builder use the following command from the application root ./script/generate designer_friendly <form_builder_name> Example ======= ./script/generate designer_friendly pretty Will generate the custom form builder PrettyFormBuilder. The PrettyFormBuilder class will be created in the models folder. The partials for the form builder will be created in the "forms/pretty_form_builder". In the first instance only a general, text_field and text_area partials will be created. You can create others and try them out by creating a partial that follows the same naming convention as the input type. To use the builder specify the builder when using form_for :- form_for @object, :builder => PrettyFormBuilder do |f| end the generate will create a forms/pretty folder in your views folder and copy four example partials. When using the form helper commands there is no need to render the label and the input separately. The following will render the input and a label for the title field: f.text_field :title There is also an option to override the label with custom text as follows: f.text_field :title, :label => "Enter the title" Thanks ====== I'd like to thank Mike Mangino (http://www.elevatedrails.com) for the most excellent recipe published in "Advanced Rails Recipes" which gave me some direction in writing this plugin. I'd also like to extend my gratitude to certain designers for their constant bitching about Rails spitting out ugly HTML (In fairness they said the same about other frameworks too) who gave me the inspiration to write this if only to shut them up. Copyright (c) 2009 David McNally, released under the MIT license
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