FoundationRailsHelper

Gem for Rails 4.1.x applications that use the excellent Zurb Foundation framework.

• Zurb Foundation
• Zurb Foundation Rails

So far it includes:

• A custom FormBuilder that generates a form using the Foundation framework. It replaces the current form_for so you don't have to change your Rails code. Error messages are properly displayed.

• A display_flash_messages helper method that uses Zurb Foundation Alerts UI.

Compatibility

• Only Rails 4.1 and Foundation 4 and 5 are fully supported
• Some features may work with Foundation 3 and older, but results may vary, and markup which exists only for those versions will be gradually removed
• Legacy branches exist for Rails 3 and 4.0 (see the rails3 and rails4.0 branches). These are not actively supported, and fixes are not retroactively applied, but pull requests are welcomed.

Screenshots

Forms

A classic devise sign up view will look like this:

<%= form_for(resource, :as => resource_name, :url => registration_path(resource_name)) do |f| %>
  <%= f.email_field :email %>
  <%= f.password_field :password %>
  <%= f.password_field :password_confirmation %>

  <%= f.submit %>
<% end %>

Form	Form with errors

Flash messages

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'zurb-foundation'
gem 'foundation_rails_helper'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Flash Messages

To get access to display_flash_messages in your views, add

include FoundationRailsHelper::FlashHelper

to app/helpers/application_helper.rb

Usage

form_for

Form_for wraps the standard rails form_for helper and adds a 'nice' and 'custom' class by default.

<%= form_for @user do |f| %>
  ...
<% end %>

generates:

<form accept-charset="UTF-8" action="/users" class="nice custom" id="new_user" method="post">
  ...

Override the default class like so:

<%= form_for(@user, html: {class: 'mean'}) do |f| %>
  ...

text_field and Field Helpers

Field helpers add a label element and an input of the proper type.

f.text_field :name

generates:

<label for="user_email">Name</label>
<input class="medium input-text" id="user_name" name="user[name]" type="text">

The 'input-text' class will always be added to the input element, but the 'medium' class can be replaced.

f.text_field :name, class: 'large'

generates:

<input class="large input-text" ... >

Prevent the generation of a label:

f.text_field :name, label: false

Change the label text and add a class on the label:

f.text_field :name, label: 'Nombre', label_options: { class: 'large' }

If the hint option is specified

f.text_field :name, hint: "I'm a text field"

an additional span element will be added after the input element:

<span class="hint">I'm a text field</span>

Submit Button

The 'submit' helper wraps the rails helper and sets the class attribute to "small radius button" by default.

f.submit

generates:

<input class="small radius button" name="commit" type="submit" value="Create User">

Specify the class option to override the default classes.

Errors

On error,

f.email_field :email

generates:

<label class=" error" for="user_email">Email</label>
<input class="medium input-text error" id="user_email" name="user[email]" type="email" value="">
<small class="error medium input-text error">can't be blank</small>

The class attribute of the 'small' element will mirror the class attribute of the 'input' element.

If the html_safe_errors: true option is specified on a field, then any HTML you may have embedded in a custom error string will be displayed with the html_safe option.

TODO

• Handle more UI components
• Make something for ajax forms

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Added some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request

Copyright

Sébastien Gruhier (http://xilinus.com, http://v2.maptimize.com) - MIT LICENSE - 2012