Labels, i18n and More

[jeremyevans]

Google Group Post: https://groups.google.com/g/ruby-forme/c/A_CNfqtbDCg
Google Group Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2018 12:25:25 -0800
Google Group Sender: [email protected]

For some reason my input tags are not outputting labels.

Forme.form(@site, method: 'post', url: 'admin/sites') do |f|
f.input :text, name: :company_name
end

gives me

I have to specify the :label option in order to get the appropriate tag.

f.input :text, name: :company_name, label: 'Company Name'

which gives me

Company Name:

This is disappointing in two ways:

1. The label wraps the input rather than provide a "for" attribute which
   messes up my design.
2. The label inserts a colon character which I did not ask for, nor does
   there seem to be any option to override.

I was also hoping to have my labels auto-translated so I was pleased to
find forme_i18n.

I am already using roda_i18n gem and configured my Sequel plugins:

Sequel::Model.plugin :forme
Sequel::Model.plugin :forme_i18n

That last line blows my app up with "cannot load such file -- i18n"

Hmm.. apparently roda_i18n is not compatible? I installed the i18n gem and
the error went away.

Still no labels... even though I loaded i18n locale paths and set up the
file as per the instructions:

models:
sites:
company_name: Company Name

So there you have it. No implicit labels or translations. Surely I am
missing something?

Thanks in advance for any guidance.

[jeremyevans]

Google Group Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2018 14:12:56 -0800
Google Group Sender: [email protected]

On Sunday, December 2, 2018 at 12:50:22 PM UTC-8, Steven Garcia wrote:

OK I figured out the DSL a bit more. When using Forme with an object I'm
not supposed to use the field type as the first argument

Changing this:

f.input :text, name: :company_name, label: 'Company Name'

to this:

f.input :company_name

yields the implicit label.

Still not happy about the colon or the asterisk (especially since it is
not a required field) but at least I'm making progress.

You probably want to use the explicit labeler instead of the default
implicit labeler. Just note that the explicit labeler requires that the
input tag have an id, where the implicit labeler does not. You can set the
explicit labeler as the default for all forms:

Forme.register_config(:mine, labeler: :explicit)
Forme.default_config = :mine

You can specify required: false to mark specific inputs as not required.
The most likely reason it would be set to required by default is if the
related database column is NOT NULL.

Thanks,
Jeremy