Nice work! I’m looking forward to its continued development!

Hello mate, thanks for your feedback.

Just to clarify, the :tel option, besides adding the css classes, also changes the input type of the field in question (input[type=tel]), which is a new HTML5 option.

Now about the lack of docs on how to add new form element types, you are right. We are planning to write a new blog post on that subject soon, so stay tunned =).
Thanks for the tip.

The only thing that is really lacking is documentation about adding new form element types. Basically I say this only because:

The :tel option seems to be nothing more than adding a class of tel to the input field. Is the intention for js to come in and customize the text inputs based on their css classes? I realize that phone numbers are *massively* complicated with internationalization, so having a phone element be too flexible is probably a pain for you guys to do. So on my end I want to add the phone element I made for formtastic so I’m searching for a *clean* way to do that.

If there was even a simple example of doing this sort of thing it would be awesome. As it is I am cobbling a solution together that works via monkeypatching, but since that’s not very Rails-3-ish I was wondering what the “official” plataforma technique is for extending simple_form.

Thanks!