I have a collection of records that are related to a specific parent object. I have no need to update the parent, just want to update all the children.
I tried making a Reform::Form and simply adding the collection declaration. An example might be a developer has many projects. When the developer goes on holiday his projects are "on_hold", but some of them might still be active. So, I would like to list all the projects with a checkbox to check if they should be put on hold. I essentially want to have a simple_fields_for :projects.
Does it make sense to use Reform for this?
I have this code:
class ProjectsForm < Reform::Form
collection :projects do
property :name #perhaps I want to rename them in the same form (bear with me)
property :on_hold
end
end
This should work, but when initializing the form with a hash
@form = ProjectsForm.new({projects: @array_of_projects})
I get an error
undefined method `projects' for #<Hash:0x007fce8f2783b8>
As if the collection method is not working. I am obviously doing something stupid.
I'd really like to use Reform. I love the philosophy behind a lot of the trailblazing suit of gems. It will be great if someone can point me in the right direction here.
If it turns out this isn't a good usecase for Reform I'll find another :P
Update:
I think reform is slightly more coupled with the idea of a model than what I thought. I thought it was just a form object with properties to play nicely with form builder. I now find that your model is key. You need to initialize the Reform form with A model, or in the case of composition, a few models. However, if you pass in an array of hash reform believes this is the model and then tries to access the :projects property on the model. In my case a hash.
I have now added a
# my contrived example is getting lame
attr_accessor :projects
to the developer class and it is working. At least the generating the reform object is working.
I am still curious wether this is a good use-case for Reform.
