You can use simple_form even if you aren’t creating a form that’s tied to a model. Take this signin form as an example: <%= simple_form_for :signin, { url: signin_path } do |f| %> <%= f.input :email %> <%= f.input :password %> <%= f.button :submit, “Sign In” %> <% end %> That will generate params like … Read more
The correct API is: f.input :date, :as => ‘date_picker’, :input_html => { :data => {:datepicker => :datepicker} }
You can just set the required mark to empty value in simple_form’s locale file: en: simple_form: required: text: ‘required’ mark: ‘*’ Or use CSS to hide it.
Is there a reason you’re not using REST for this? It would make your life a lot easier and requires much less code. If you’re set on using this custom action, you will need to specify the url and probably the method: <%= simple_form_for @photographer, :url => savenew_photographers_path, :method => :post … # etc
Have you tried to use the :selected => option? :selected => selected_country_id So, = f.input :country_id, :collection => all_countries, :selected => selected_country_id This will work perfectly !!! Cheers!
You can try with something like this: <%= f.input :quantity, input_html: {value: f.object.quantity || ‘1’} %>
If I understand your answer correctly, what you want to do is explained in the official wiki page here: Create a fake input that does NOT read attributes. You can use a field not related to any real database column by Edward’s suggestion, however you don’t need to define an attribute in your model if … Read more
You can use :symbol as the first argument. <%= simple_form_for :user, url: users_path do |f| %> <%= f.input :name, as: :string %> … <% end %> It will output something like this: <form novalidate=”novalidate” class=”simple_form user” action=”https://stackoverflow.com/users” accept-charset=”UTF-8″ method=”post”> … <div class=”input string required user_name”> <label class=”string required” for=”user_name”> <abbr title=”required”>*</abbr> Name </label> <input class=”string … Read more
try this = f.input :title, :as => :hidden, :input_html => { :value => “some value” }