BetterResources

One crappy thing about Rails resources is that when a user creates a new record or edits an existing record, the forms POST or PATCH to different URLs than the forms. This means that if something goes wrong and the user tries to refresh the page, they receive a 404 because GET for /posts does not exist.

This gem addresses that by adding better_resources routes, better_form_with and better_form_for. These generate the proper URLs and forms to handle this problem.

We opted not to override the Rails helpers so that these don't interfer at all with your existing code.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'better_resources'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install better_resources

Then you can change your routes to use better_resources

# config/routes.rb
better_resources :posts

And your forms can now use better_form_with or better_form_for to match the routes:

<%= better_form_for(user) do |form| %>
<% end %>

<%# or %>

<%= better_form_with(model: user) do |form| %>
<% end %>

And that's it!

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake test to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/[USERNAME]/better_resources. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the Contributor Covenant code of conduct.

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

Everyone interacting in the BetterResources project’s codebases, issue trackers, chat rooms and mailing lists is expected to follow the code of conduct.