How to create Simple, fast and awesome rails form in your rhtml or html.erb ? the answer for now is Super_In_Place_Controls & I tested in Rails 2.0. Let start to use it :

• Install the plugin to your ruby app

ruby script/plugin install http://os.flvorful.com/svn/plugins/super_in_place_controls

• In your layout or rhtml / html.erb put it :

<%= stylesheet_link_tag 'in_place_styles' %>

• Done !!, let start to implement it in your view file (click the image below to enlarge).

• For regular text_field you can change it to be :

in_place_text_field :product, :title

• For regular text_area, you can change it to be :

in_place_text_area :product, :description

• For regular select_tag, you can change it to be:

in_place_select :product, :product_type, :choices => %w(Awesomeness Coolness Phatness RubyBliss).map { |e| [e, e] }

• For regular radio_collection, you can change it to be :

in_place_radio :product, :price, :choices => %w(199 299 399 499 599 699 799 899 999).map { |e| [e, e] }

• For check box collection you can change it to be:

in_place_check_box :product, :category_ids, :choices => Category.find(:all).map { |e| [e.id, e.title] }, :display_text => :collection

• And for date you can change to be :

in_place_date_select :product, :display_begin

• for more style you can addcalendar_date_select_includes "blue" to the pages you want to use the calendar select on. The other styles for the calendar_date_select are "blue", "plain", "red", "silver", "default".

• Online Demo : DEMO