Padrino Bootstrap Forms

Padrino Bootstrap Forms is a port of Seth Vargo's Bootstrap Forms for Rails. Thanks Seth!

Bootstrap Forms is a nice generator that makes working with Bootstrap (by Twitter) even easier on Padrino.

Differences Between This & The Rails Version

No bootstrap namespace for localization
@builder.error_messages was removed and the Padrino version is not automatically called when there's an error
Models with required attributes will not have the HTML5 required attribute automatically added to their inputs
The following helpers have been removed, as they are not available in Padrino
- collection_select
- country_select
- time_zone_select
- range_field

Bootstrap 2.0 Compliant!

A super special thanks to vincenzor for updating bootstrap_forms to comply with the new methods and features in Twitter Bootstrap 2.0.

Installation

Add it to your Gemfile:

gem 'padrino_bootstrap_forms', :require => 'bootstrap_forms'

Don't forget to run the bundle command.

class YourApplication < Padrino::Application
  register BootstrapForms
  # ...
end

This will add the method bootstrap_form_for for use in your project.

Why?

With Bootstrap, you would need the following code for a form:

/ using HAML
= form_for @model do |f|
  .clearfix
    %label MyLabel
    .input
      = f.text_area :field, :opts => {...}

Using Bootstrap Forms, this is much simpler:

/ using HAML
= bootstrap_form_for @model do |f|
  = f.text_area :field, :opts => {...}

The custom form builder will automatically wrap everything for you. This helps clean up your view layer significantly!

Additional Form Methods

Just when you thought you were done... Bootstrap Forms includes additional form helpers that make life a lot easier! For example, the markup required for a list of checkboxes is quite cumbersome... well, it used to be.

collection_check_boxes

collection_check_boxes behaves very similarly to collection_select:

= f.collection_check_boxes :category_ids, Category.all, :id, :name

collection_radio_buttons

See description above...

= f.collection_radio_buttons :primary_category_id, Category.all, :id, :name

radio_buttons

= f.radio_buttons :published, { "Published" => true, "Unpublished" => false }

Ruby 1.8 doesn't guarantee hashes are ordered. If you care, pass in nested arrays or ActiveSupport::OrderedHash.

Uneditable Input

Bootstrap Forms adds another helper method that generates the necessary markup for uneditable inputs:

= f.uneditable_input :name

yields:

<div class="clearfix">
  <label for="organization_name">Organization Name</label>
  <div class="input">
    <span class="uneditable-input">The Variety Hour</span>
  </div>
</div>

Submit Tag

Bootstrap Forms also adds a default actions panel when you call f.submit:

= f.submit

generates:

<div class="actions">
  <input type="submit" value="..." class="btn primary" />
  <a href="..." class="btn">Cancel</a>
</div>

You can skip the cancel button by passing the :include_cancel button a false value.

Pretty swell if you ask me.

Adding More Options

You can add as many options to any form helper tag. If they are interpreted by Bootstrap Forms, they are interpreted and rendered in the output. If not, they are passed along as values to the final HTML form object.

Available Options

Name	Description	Usage
help_inline	Add inline help text	= f.text_field :name, :help_inline => 'help me!'
help_block	Add block help text (below)	= f.text_field :name, :help_block => 'help me!'
error	Styles the field as error (red)	= f.text_field :name, :error => 'This is an error!'
success	Styles the field as success (green)	= f.text_field :name, :success => 'This checked out OK'
warning	Styles the field as warning (yellow)	= f.text_field :name, :warning => 'Take a look at this...'
prepend	Adds special text to the front of the input	= f.text_field :name, :prepend => '@'
append	Adds special text at the end of the input	= f.text_field :name, :append => '@'

Contributing

I'm pretty dam active on github. Fork and submit a pull request. Most of my pull requests are merged the same day. Make sure you:

Squash into a single commit (unless it makes sense to have multiple commits)
Test/Spec the changes
Document your changes

License

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

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