GOV.UK Components for Ruby on Rails

This gem provides a suite of reusable components for the GOV.UK Design System. It is intended to provide a lightweight alternative to the GOV.UK Publishing Components library and is built with GitHub’s ViewComponent framework.

It aims to implement the functionality from the original Nunjucks macros in a way that will feel more familiar to Rails developers. Blocks are preferred over strings of HTML, beneath the surface each component is just a Ruby object, everything is inheritable and overrideable.

Documentation

The gem comes with a full guide that covers most aspects of day-to-day use, along with code and output examples. The examples in the guide (and the guide itself) are built using the components, so it will always be up to date.

What’s included?

All of the non-form components from the GOV.UK Design System are implemented by this library as ViewComponents. Form components are implemented by the GOV.UK Form Builder.

The provided components are:

• Accordion
• Back link
• Breadcrumbs
• Cookie banner
• Details
• Exit this page
• Footer
• Header
• Inset text
• Notification banner
• Panel
• Pagination
• Phase banner
• Section break
• Start button
• Summary list
• Tabs
• Tables
• Tags
• Task list
• Warning text

This library also provides helpers for creating links, buttons, skip links and back to top links.

Alternative syntax

All of the components can be rendered in two ways:

• directly using Rails’ #render method:

    <%= render GovukComponent::WarningTextComponent.new do %>
      A serious warning
    <% end %>

• via the helper wrapper:

    <%= govuk_warning_text do %>
      A serious warning
    <% end %>

The naming convention for helpers is govuk_ followed by the component’s name in snake case. You can see the full list in GovukComponentsHelper.

Example use

This library allows components to be rendered with Rails’ render method or via the provided helpers. Here we’ll use the govuk_tabs to render three tabbed sections:

<%= govuk_tabs(title: 'Days of the week') do |component| %>
  <% component.with_tab(label: 'Monday') do %>
    <p>Monday’s child is fair of face</p>
  <% end %>

  <% component.with_tab(label: 'Tuesday') do %>
    <p>Tuesday’s child is full of grace</p>
  <% end %>

  <% component.with_tab(label: 'Wednesday') do %>
    <p>Wednesday’s child is full of woe</p>
  <% end %>
<% end %>

Here are the rendered tabs:

For examples on usage see the guide page.

Setup

Add this line to your config/application.rb:

require "govuk/components"

Services using this library

• Apply for teacher training
• Find postgraduate teacher training
• Get help with technology
• Publish teacher training courses
• Register trainee teachers
• Teaching Vacancies

Forks

• Betagouv Système de Design de l'État view components

Installation

Add this line to your application’s Gemfile:

gem 'govuk-components'

And then execute:

bundle

Or install it yourself as:

gem install govuk-components

Contributing

Bug reports and feature requests are most welcome, please raise an issue or submit a pull request.

Currently we're using GOVUK Lint to ensure code meets the GOV.UK guidelines. Please ensure that any PRs also adhere to this standard.

To help keep the logs clean and tidy, please configure git to use your full name:

git config --global user.name "Julius Hibbert"

Licence

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.