[Catalyst] Rails-like form helpers

[Zbigniew Lukasiak]

Hi,

I don't know if I grap the idea of the helpers in full - could you explain
their functions here in short?  For me it looks like they just create form
elements just like the $w->element('...', '...') does.  There is something
also about using them for the updates - could you a bit elaborate on that?
HTML::Widget also works on the update side - at least can check the
constraints, but it does not set values of an object - do the RoR helpers?

In related news I am working on Catalyst::Example::InstantCRUD - a kind of
scaffolding for Catalyst with DBIx::Class as persistance layer.  It has some
code to autogenerate the forms from the DBIx::Class schema - but I am not
happy with it and just now I am restructuring it to use a config, generated
from the schema instead of using the schema directly.

--
Zbyszek

On 9/20/06, Jon Warbrick <jw35 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> I've always admired the form helpers used by Rails (see [1]) - essentially
> helpers for use in templates for creating form controls that are linked to
> underlying model objects so that they can be pre-populated and so that the
> controls can be named to make subsequent update of the objects easy. It
> strikes me that something like this could be useful when creating forms
> that are more complex then solutions like HTMLWidget can conveniently cope
> with.
>
> Catalyst-Plugin-Params-Nested already provides support for something very
> like the Rails naming scheme, but I can't see anything that provides
> anything like the helpers themselves. Before I start creating something,
> probably as a DBIx::Class component, please can anyone tell me if I'm
> re-inventing the wheel?
>
> Jon.
>
> [1]
> http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/FormHelper.html#M000389
>
> --
> Jon Warbrick
> Web/News Development, Computing Service, University of Cambridge
>
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Zbigniew Lukasiak
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