Thoughtbot standardizes on Formtastic!

Published 16 August 09 by Justin French

Thoughtbot on the recent updates to Suspenders (the Rails template they use in most of their projects):

We added formtastic (and the validation reflection plugin, which enables automatic “required field” labeling), which – after having spent 18 months or so talking about and never building the “perfect form builder” – we’ve decided to standardize on formtastic for all new projects.

This is huge news for me. We haven’t even reached what I consider a solid 1.0 candidate, and big firms like Thoughtbot are making Formtastic part of their default toolbox, which means it’s going to be in a heap of Rails projects, and probably part of their workshop curriculum.

There’s an astonishing (for me) 700+ people watching the project on Github, 50+ forks, heaps of great feedback and positive buzz on Twitter.

Hopefully there’s a 0.9 gem in the next week or two (I know, feels like I’ve been saying that forever), then we’re going to clean up some rough edges, remove the deprecated stuff and polish this thing up for a 1.0!

After that, I’ll introduce my next Rails plugin for the view layer, which seems to have a few people excited already!