Rails 4 will ship with ActiveModel::Model, a module that includes the minimum required by Action Pack to work in forms, urls and so forth. Learn more about this module, how to use and extend it in this blog post.

The Carnival is over in Brazil but we are still partying at Plataformatec by bringing you, not a small bump, but a shiny new version: Simple Form 2.0. Simple Form 2.0 features a new wrapper API which makes it very flexible and easy to integrate with CSS frameworks like Twitter Bootstrap.

I’m pleased to say that we released SimpleForm 1.4. Like the last version, this release had a lot of contributions from the community, closing bugs and adding some nice features. Here is a brief introduction to some of the new features: Custom Form Builders Now you can set a custom form builder that inherits from SimpleForm::FormBuilder: … »

We have been working on SimpleForm for some time since the last release and have got a lot of contributions from community. Now it is time for a new release with more HTML 5 compatibility plus some new cool features. So, without further ado, lets take a ride on the new stuff. HTML 5 One … »

Sometime ago we were working on a project together with a designer, and that specific application was full of forms, each one having a different layout, but most of them sharing the same features: inline errors, hints, specific label markup for required fields, etc. To start prototyping the application faster, we used the markup the … »

One of the beauties in the Open Source world is the possibility of reading other people source code and learn new things. However, lately I found out that not only the library code, but the test suite of several open source projects are full lessons for us. In this post, I want to tell you … »