Posts tagged “forms”

Nov 2018 · 2 min read · 1 comment

Rails Style Params in Python and Flask

Ruby on Rails does a great job of parsing arrays in form data and populating a params hash, for quick and easy access in your controllers. For instance <input name="item[]" value="item 1"/ <input...

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Aug 2010 · 1 min read

Using Formtastic to Cleanly Create Nice Looking Forms in Rails

Forms can easily get cluttered when you're dealing with a lot of form fields... er, ERB tags. I've written about extending Rails form builders, which certainly goes along way to shrinking your...

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Mar 2010 · 1 min read

Extending Rails Form Builders

Extending forms in Rails is simple and will greatly reduce the amount of code in your views. This example is taken right from the Agile Web Development book on Rails(2.1.\) with one minor tweak. I...

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Aug 2009 · 1 min read

Trouble Using Attr_Accessor in Rails Models and Forms

You might use the attr\accessible method to create getters and setters for a class that has attributes which don't map directly to corresponding fields in a database. For example let's take the...

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Jul 2009 · 1 min read

Nested Attributes in a Form for Has_One Model Association in Rails

Just for reference...

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Mar 2009 · 2 min read

Using Prototype to Access Form Data

Prototype has a powerful API for accessing and manipulating the Document Object Model, A.K.A the DOM. The following code will let you interact with a simple web form. Suppose we have a form that...

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