Railway Bootstrap Plugin

Railway Bootstrap is a RailwayJS plugin that will render forms for your models utilizing Twitter Bootstrap formatting and CSS classes.

Requirements:

Railway Bootstrap requires RailwayJS v2.6+. The plugin may work with earlier version of RailwayJS, but it untested.

Additionally, RailwayJS uses EJS for rendering view templates by default. While RailwayJS is capable of working with the Jade rendering engine, Railway Bootstrap has not yet been tested with Jade.

Installation:

Install the package via npm:

> npm install railway-bootstrap

Usage:

Assume that your application has a User model with properties username, email, avatar, and description in the following example. Also assume that user is an instance of the User model (generated via new User()).

<% bootstrapFormFor(user, function (form) { %>
    <%- form.input('username') %>
    <%- form.input('email', { label: 'Email Address' }) %>
    <%- form.file('avatar') %>
    <%- form.textarea('description') %>
<% }) %>

The bootstrapFormFor helper method can accept parameters in the following formats:

1. bootstrapFormFor(resource, callback)
2. bootstrapFormFor(resource, options, callback)

In the second format, the options parameter represent a basic JS object. Any key/value pairs included in the object will be converted to HTML attributes on the <form> DOM object. For example:

bootstrapFormFor(user, { action: '/users/new', method: 'put' }, function (form) { ... });

This will produce the following HTML:

<form class="form-horizontal" action="/users/new" method="post">
    <input type="hidden" name="authenticity_token" value="f46d9de27e45fef8dce10a36dcdc7be7fa8612af" />
    <input type="hidden" name="_method" value="PUT" />
    <!-- any other calls made on the form object will render here -->
</form>

For either format of bootstrapFormFor that is used, the callback parameter will be provided with form object. This object provides several methods used for rendering form fields. By default, each field is wrapped according to Twitter Bootstrap's horizontal form format with an accompanying label

The following methods are provided:

• input (name, options): Creates an <input> element, where name is the name of the resource's property to render. If no options are provided, the input type defaults to "text".
• textarea (name, options): Creates a <textarea> element, where name is the name of the resource's property to render.
• file (name, options): Creates an <input type="file"> element, where name is the name of the resource's property to render.
• submit (label, options): Creates a <button type="submit"> element, where label is the text to be rendered on the button.

Created By:

Matt Huggins

License:

Railway-Bootstrap is released under the MIT license.