RailsFormObject

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'rails_form_object'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install rails_form_object

Intention

It allow you to move validations away from models. It get hash of params, or strong parameters as initializer instead of model instance and then run active_model validations on it

Gem allow you to:

• validates hashes or strong_parameters
• use standard validations from active_model

Gem do not allow you to:

• validates models directly, because of simplicity
• save model, because of single responsibility principle

Usage

To define form_object you need to specify list of attributes to validation, and then define standard active_model validations

 class UserEditFriendData < RailsFormObject::Base
   attributes :frist_name, :last_name
   validates :first_name, :last_name, presence: true
   validate :custom_validation
     
   def custom_validation
     # custom validator here
   end
 end

Example usage of UserEditOwnData in controller

  class FriendsController < ActionController::Base
    def new 
      @friend_form = UserEditFriendData.new
    end
    
    def edit
       friend = Friend.find(params[:id])
       @friend_form = UserEditFriendData.new(friend.attributes)
    end
    
    def create
      @friend_form = UserEditFriendData.new(friend_params)
      if @friend_form.valid?
         friend = Friend.new(friend_params)
         friend.save(validation: false)
         redirect_to friend
      else
         render :new
      end
    end
    
    def update
      @friend_form = UserEditFriendData.new(friend_params)
      if @friend_form.valid?
         friend = Friend.find(params[:id])
         friend.assign_attributes(friend_params)
         friend.save(validation: false)
         redirect_to friend
      else
         render :edit
      end
    end
    
    def friend_params
      params.require(:user_edit_friend_data).permit(:first_name, :last_name)
    end
  end

TODO

PR are welcome

• Add support for nested attributes and nested form
• Add optional uniqueness validator

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. Then run rubocop You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/piotr-galas/rails_form_object. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the Contributor Covenant code of conduct.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.