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: … »

It is common in Rails 3.0 applications that you want to provide default views for a group of controllers. Let’s say you have a bunch of controllers inside the Admin namespace and you would like each action to fallback to a default template. So if you are rendering the index action for Admin::PostsController and “app/views/admin/posts/index.html.*” … »

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 … »

A couple weeks ago we finally released Devise 1.1 which is fully-compatible with Rails 3! Not only that, we’ve been working with Rails 3 since the first betas and several features were added along the way! Let’s take a look at those, some architectural changes and see how Devise 1.1 and Rails 3 will change … »

You probably know that Active Record got a facelift and is now powered by Active Relation. A new chainable-award-winning-lazy API was added and received great feedback! However, as more and more people are trying Rails 3 beta, a small incompatibility between the old and new syntax was found. This post explains this incompatibility and how … »

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 … »