How to Create Wizard Forms in Ruby on Rails

how to create wizard forms in ruby on rails

There are a couple of plugins that provide wizzard construction facilitation in rails.

Acts as Wizard and Wizardly seem the most popular.

The main idea is to:

* create a model in the first step

* then edit it on subsequent steps,

* applying partial validation on each step and

* having the model implement some sort of state machine.

Constructing a wizard in Ruby on Rails

check out the wicked gem, you might find it helpful

https://github.com/schneems/wicked

rendering first step of multistep form wizard as partial in another controller's show action

Controllers are designed to be independent, they cannot depend on each other. This is different than views, than may be reused and composed through partials, as you are doing.

If you need to reuse behavior in controllers (which is not the same as one controller depending on another one), you may use inheritance or, following the Rails Way, concerns.

In this case, I would create a concern to setup the @trade_wizard variable in any controller that includes the wizards/step1partial view.

Creating a wizard-style form spanning multiple models

i'm working in the same pattern this week.

I have a multi model wizard, where every step touch a set of models. I did work using "transactions", the old ActiveModel transations, that now is a gem.

So basically, my form load always the same view, where i just reload it. this view reload a partial for a specific step. In my wizard all (4) steps are mandatory. so the user is just able to go further if he complete the previous steps. I submit, save the objects that i have to and then move to the next step. If you plan to put one step as review in the end, where you first review what you did and then you apply it. i would recommend to do one single form where you hide and unhide the steps. You can do it easily with javascript.

Editing a Wizard multistep form after save - Wicked Gem / Rails

My solution to this in the end was rather than have the edit form as a multi step wizard, I've joined the form data together in a separate view page and got a traditional route to it as you mention. Not perfect but does the job!

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