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Welcome to the SimpleForm wiki. Here you will find additional content and documentation for the SimpleForm project, which complements the project README and code docs.

Cheers, The SimpleForm/Plataformatec team.

Guides

Below there's several guides and tutorials created by the community showcasing customizations and configuration usage for SimpleForm.

• Adding custom components
• Adding custom input components
• Attributes filter
• Contact Form using Mail_Form
• Create a fake input that does NOT read attributes
• Create an "input" just for displaying attribute value
• Create an "input" just for displaying custom content (e.g. a link)
• Creating a minimalist form (no labels just placeholders)
• CSS for simple_form
• Custom inputs examples
• Custom Wrappers
• HTML5 Attributes
• Nested Models
• Simple Form with Devise
• Twitter Bootstrap integration
• Twitter Bootstrap v2 and simple_form v2
• Bootstrap component helpers
• Upgrading to Simple Form 2.0
• Use with ActiveModel compliant models
• Zurb's Foundation integration

Other Resources

Railscast 234 - SimpleForm

• Original version.
• Revised version (requires a Pro subscription).

Documentation and Discussions

• A navigable version of the README.
• Mailing list.
• Questions tagged with 'simple_form' on StackOverflow.
• Source documentation.

Gems and sample applications

• nested_form, a Rails plugin to conveniently handle multiple models in a single form, which supports SimpleForm.
• SimpleForm and Twitter Bootstrap, a sample application using SimpleForm 2 and Twitter Bootstrap.

Blog posts

• Posts from the Plataformatec blog about simple_form.
• Posts from the Brainspec blog about simple_form.

FAQ

I have a question, how should I proceed?

If you have any questions about SimpleForm, search the Wiki or use the Mailing List or Stack Overflow. Do not post questions on the project Issue Tracker.

I believe I have found a bug.

First of all, search through the Issue Tracker to see if your bug hasn't been fixed yet on the master branch. If not, do your best to supply a piece of code or a fresh Rails application that reproduces your error along the error description and the expected behavior. Bad Issue reports will be closed until they meet these requirements so the SimpleForm maintainers can work on it.

If you find a security bug, DO NOT submit an issue here. Please send an e-mail to [email protected] instead.

Does SimpleForm works with ORM others than ActiveRecord?

SimpleForm is built on top of Rails FormBuilder, so it should work nicely with any library that implements the proper ActiveModel API required by ActionPack. But if you're using an ORM other ActiveRecord than SimpleForm won't be able to discover the proper input types for the attributes on your model, so you might need to define them on your own on your forms. For instance, when using Mongoid, you might need to set options such as :collection and :as:

<%= simple_form_for @post do |form| %>
  <%= form.input :category, collection: Category.all %>
  <%= form.input :contents, as: :text %>
  <%= form.input :published, as: :boolean %>
<% end >

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