Sinatra::FormKeeper

This module provides you a easy way for form-validation and fill-in-form on your sinatra application

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'sinatra-formkeeper'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install sinatra-formkeeper

Usage

Synopsis

require 'sinatra/formkeeper'

get '/sign_up' do
  form do
    filters :strip, :my_filter
    field :username, :present => true, :length => 4..8
    field :age, :present => true, :int => { :gte => 18 }
    field :password01, :present => true, :length => 4..8
    field :password02, :present => true, :length => 4..8
    same :same_password, [:password01, :password02]
  end
  if form.failed?
    "signup failed"
  else
    "singup success " + form[:username]
  end
end

0: Preparation

At your application file's header, add require line for this library.

require 'sinatra/formkeeper'

And if your application is Sinatra::Base inheritance type, register Sinatra::FormKeeper

class MyApp < Sinatra::Base
  register Sinatra::FormKeeper
  #...
end

1: Building rules

In your routing block, you should build a form-rule at first, like following

post '/entry' do 
  form do
    filters :strip
    field :title,   :present => true, :length => 4..20
    field :message, :present => true, :length => 0..200
  end
  #...
end

Calling form with block which includes rule-setting, you can build a form-rule. There are some DSL-method to build rules. In this example, filters and field are written.

filters

You can set filters. All input parameters are filtered by indicated filtering feature The filtering process is executed before validation.

form do
  filters :strip
  #...
end

You can set multiple filters at once

form do
  filters :strip, :downcase
  #...
end

All preset filters are described at 8: Preset Filters

field

You can add a setting for each field

form do
  field :field_name, :present => true, length => 0..10
  #...
end

This constraint works for an input form named as field_name, for instance

<input type="text" name="field_name" />

And key-value pares are following the field name. They are constraints set for the field. You can add your favorite constraints here.

All preset constraints are described at 9: Preset Constraints Read the chapter for more detail.

:present is a special constraint. if parameter not found for the field which set :present constraint, the field will be marked as not present, and other validation for rest constraints won't be executed.

You also can set :default

form do
  field :field_name, :default => 'Default Value', :length => 0..10
  #...
end

When it's set, if parameter not found, the indicated value will be set and other validation for rest constraints won't be executed.

You aren't allowed to set both :present and :default at same time.

And you can set filters here, if you don't want to filter all the parameters included in the request. This filtering setting only affets on :field_name.

form do
  field :field_name, :present => true, filters => [:strip, :downcase]
  #...
end

You can set as just one single symbol, if you don't need multiple filters.

form do
  field :field_name, :present => true, filters => :strip
  #...
end

selection

You also can set the rule like this.

form do
  selection :field_name, :count => 1..3, int => true
  #...
end

This is just for field which has multiple values. For instance,

<input type="checkbox" name="field_name[]" value="1" checked>
<label>check1</label>
<input type="checkbox" name="field_name[]" value="2" checked>
<label>check2</label>
<input type="checkbox" name="field_name[]" value="3" checked>
<label>check3</label>

Or

<select name="favorite[]" multiple>
  <option value="1" selected="selected">white</option>
  <option value="2">black</option>
  <option value="3">blue</option>
</select>

Rack request handle such type of name (exp: field_name[]) as Array. For this type of input, use selection method. In this case, you must use :count constraints instead of :present.

combination

There is another special rule, Combination

form do
  combination :same_address, :fields => ["email01", "email02"], :same => true
  combination :favorite_color, :fields => ["white", "black", "blue"], :any => true
end

Set rule-name as a first argument. And you should set multiple target fields. And one constraint like (:same => true), or (:any => true).

:same and :any are called as Combination Constraint For this purpose, formkeeper provides you a simple way to do same things.

form do
  same :same_address, ["email01", "email02"]
  any :favorite_color, ["white", "black", "blue"]
end

You can call a name of Combination Constraints as a method. Followed by rule-name and target-fields.

All preset constraints are described at 10: Preset Combination Constraints

2: Check if user's input is valid or not

form.failed? can be used to judge if user's input is valid for the rule you build.

post '/entry' do 
  form do
    #...
  end
  if form.failed?
    # user's input is invalid
  else
    # user's input is valid!
  end
end

3: Pick up valid data

After validation is proccessed without any failure, you can implement your domain logic with valid parameters.

form[:field_name] can be used to pick up a valid data. This data you can obtain through this method is a filtered data according to the rule you build (if you set a filters rule).

post '/entry' do 
  form do
    #...
  end
  if form.failed?
    #...
  else
    # do something with valid data
    Database.insert( :title => form[:field], :message => form[:message] )
  end
end

4: Check if what field has failed?

When validation is failed, you might want to provide user same form again, with error message that describes what fields was invalid. For this purpose, use failed_on? method.

post '/entry' do 
  form do
    #...
  end
  if form.failed?
    erb :entry
  else
    #...
  end
end
__END__

5: Check if what field and constraint has failed?

You can pass constraint-type to failed_on? as a second argument. This provides you a way to show detailed error-messages.

post '/entry' do 
  form do
    #...
  end
  if form.failed?
    erb :entry
  else
    #...
  end
end
__END__

6: Fill in form

In many case you might want to fill in form with user's last input. Do like following. fill_in_form automatically fill the fields with params

post '/entry' do 
  form do
    #...
  end
  if form.failed?
    output = erb :entry
    fill_in_form(output)
  else
    #...
  end
end

7: Message Handling

You can aggregate a error messages into external yaml file.

--- messages.yaml
login:
  username:
    present: input name!
    length: intput name (length should be between 0 and 10)
  email:
    DEFAULT: input correct email address
post_entry:
  title:
    present: Title not found
DEFAULT:
  username:
    present: username not found
-- ...

DEFAULT is a special type. If it can't find setting for indicated validation-type, it uses message set for DEFAULT. After you prepare a yaml file, load it.

form_messages File.expand_path(File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), 'config', 'form_messages.yaml'))
post '/entry' do 
  #...
end

You can show messages bound to indicated action-name you set in yaml.

<html>
  <head><title>Entry</title></head>
  <body>
  <% if form.failed? %> 
    <ul>
    <% form.messages(:post_entry).each do |message|  %>
      <li><%= message %></li>
    <% end %>
    </ul>
  <% end %>
  </body>
</html>

If you want to show messages for each field, separately, of course you can.

<html>
  <head><title>Entry</title></head>
  <body>
  <form>
  <% if form.failed? %> 
    <ul>
    <% form.messages(:login, :username).each do |message|  %>
      <li><%= message %></li>
    <% end %>
    </ul>
  <% end %>
  <label>username</label><input type="text" name="username">
  <% if form.failed? %> 
    <ul>
    <% form.messages(:login, :password).each do |message|  %>
      <li><%= message %></li>
    <% end %>
    </ul>
  <% end %>
  <label>password</label><input type="text" name="password">
  </body>
</html>

8: Preset Filters

strip

downcase

upcase

9: Preset Constraints

length

calculate length. this constraint use String#length internally You can set integer.

post '/entry' do 
  form do
    field :field01, :present => true, :length => 10
  end
  #...
end

Or as range

post '/entry' do 
  form do
    field :field01, :present => true, :length => 4..10
  end
  #...
end

bytesize

Calculate byte size. this constraint use String#bytesize internally You can set integer.

post '/entry' do 
  form do
    field :field01, :present => true, :bytesize => 10
  end
  #...
end

Or as range

post '/entry' do 
  form do
    field :field01, :present => true, :bytesize => 4..10
  end
  #...
end

ascii

post '/entry' do 
  form do
    field :field01, :present => true, :ascii => true
  end
  #...
end

regexp

post '/entry' do 
  form do
    field :field01, :present => true, :regexp => %r{regexp}
  end
  #...
end

int

post '/entry' do 
  form do
    field :field01, :present => true, :int => true
  end
  #...
end

Fore more detailed constraint, You can use following options as a hash.

  • gt: This means >
  • gte: This means >=
  • lt: This means <
  • lte: This means <=
  • between: Or you can set Range object
post '/entry' do 
  form do
    field :field01, :present => true, :int => { :gt => 5, :lt => 10 }
  end
  #...
end

post '/entry' do 
  form do
    field :field01, :present => true, :int => { :gte => 5, :lte => 10 }
  end
  #...
end

post '/entry' do 
  form do
    field :field01, :present => true, :int => { :between => 5..10 }
  end
  #...
end

uint

Unsined integer. This doesn't allow lass than zero. Except for that, it behaves same as integer

post '/entry' do 
  form do
    field :field01, :present => true, :uint => { :between => 5..10 }
  end
  #...
end

alpha

Alphabet

alpha_space

Alphabet and Space

alnum

Alphabet and Number

alnum_space

Alphabet, Number and Space

email

Email-Address

post '/entry' do 
  form do
    field :your_address, :present => true, :email => true, :bytesize => 10..255
  end
  #...
end

uri

Limit a scheme as Array

post '/entry' do 
  form do
    field :your_address, :present => true, :uri => [:http, :https], :bytesize => 10..255
  end
  #...
end

post '/entry' do 
  form do
    field :your_address, :present => true, :uri => [:http], :bytesize => 10..255
  end
  #...
end

If your scheme option is only one. You can set as a String.

post '/entry' do 
  form do
    field :your_address, :present => true, :uri => :http, :bytesize => 10..255
  end
  #...
end

10: Preset Combination Constraints

same

any

date

time

datetime

11: Utilize Plugins

require 'formkeeper/japanese' 

post '/entry' do
  form do
    filters :zenkaku2hankaku
  end
end

12: Custom Filter

form_filter :my_capitalize_filter do |value|
  value.capitalize
end

post '/entry' do
  form do
    filters :my_capitalize_filter
  end
end

13: Custom Constraint

See Also

Contributing

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  5. Create new Pull Request