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<h2 id="form-builder">Form builder</h2>
<pre><code class="language-haml">- form_for @post do |f|
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<p>Field names will be prefixed with <code>post</code> (the class name), and values will be derived from this object (eg, <code>f.text_field :name</code> from <code>@post.name</code>).</p>
<h3 id="options">Options</h3>
<pre><code class="language-haml">- form_for @post, |
url: { method: 'put', action: 'create' }, |
html: { class: 'nifty_form' } |
do |f|
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<h2 id="fields">Fields</h2>
<h3 id="text">Text</h3>
<pre><code class="language-rb">f.text_field :title
f.text_area :body, size: '60x12'
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<h3 id="checkbox">Checkbox</h3>
<pre><code class="language-rb">f.check_box :remember_me
f.label :remember_me, "Remember me"
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<h3 id="radio">Radio</h3>
<pre><code class="language-rb">f.radio_button :gender, 'male'
f.label :gender_male, "Male"
f.radio_button :gender, 'female'
f.label :gender_female, "Female"
</code></pre>
<h3 id="label">Label</h3>
<pre><code class="language-rb">f.label :title
f.label :title, "Title"
f.label :title, "Title", class: "title"
f.label(:post, :terms) { "Accept terms" }
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<h3 id="submit-button">Submit button</h3>
<pre><code class="language-rb">f.submit "Create"
</code></pre>
<h3 id="hidden-fields">Hidden fields</h3>
<pre><code class="language-rb">f.hidden_field :id
</code></pre>
<h2 id="misc">Misc</h2>
<h3 id="the-model">The model</h3>
<pre><code class="language-ruby">f.object
</code></pre>
<h3 id="fields-for">Fields for</h3>
<pre><code class="language-haml">= form_for @post do |f|
= fields_for :author, @post.author do |ff|
= ff.text_field :name
</code></pre>
<h3 id="select-dropdowns">Select dropdowns</h3>
<pre><code class="language-rb">f.select :city_id, [['Lisbon',1], ['Madrid',2], ...], 4
# (4 = selected)
options_for_select [['Lisbon',1], ['Madrid',2], ...], 4
# Just makes &lt;option&gt; tags
</code></pre>
<h3 id="collections">Collections</h3>
<pre><code>f.collection_radio_buttons :author_id, Author.all, :id, :name_with_initial
f.collection_select :city_id, City.all, :id, :name
# (field, collection, value_key, label_key)
</code></pre>
<h3 id="time-select">Time select</h3>
<pre><code class="language-rb">f.time_zone_select :time_zone
f.date_select :birthday
</code></pre>
<h3 id="i18n">I18n</h3>
<pre><code class="language-yaml">helpers:
submit:
# helpers.submit.&lt;action&gt;
create: "Create a %{model}"
update: "Confirm changes to %{model}"
# helpers.submit.&lt;model&gt;.&lt;action&gt;
article:
create: "Publish article"
update: "Update article"
# helpers.label.&lt;model&gt;.&lt;field&gt;
label:
post:
body: "Your body text"
</code></pre>
<h3 id="outside-f">Outside <code>f</code></h3>
<pre><code class="language-rb">radio_button("post", "category", "rails")
radio_button("post", "category", "java")
# picks from @post.category
# &lt;input type="radio" id="post_category_rails" name="post[category]"
# value="rails" checked="checked" /&gt;
</code></pre>
<h3 id="reference">Reference</h3>
<pre><code class="language-rb">select(method, choices = nil, options = {}, html_options = {}, &amp;block)
choices == [ ['label', id], ... ]
submit(value=nil, options={})
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