Midas Touch

Everything I touch turns to gold!

Midas provides a collection of classes to help manage inputs. The concept is simple. You have a collection of inputs. Those inputs can each have multiple filters as well as multiple validation rules.

If you choose you can filter and validate the individual inputs or do them all together in a group.

Midas provides no pre-created validation or filter rules. I believe everyone should understand the exact way their validations and filters work.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'midas-touch'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install midas-touch

Usage

Sinatra DSL

Classic

require "sinatra"
require "midas-touch"

post("foo") do
  form do
    filters :strip
    field :first_name, :required
    field :last_name,  :required
    field :contact,    :phone_number
  end

  if form.valid?
    # do something
  else
    # render the form
  end
end

# in foo.html.erb
<% if form.error_on?(:first_name) %>
  First name is required
<% end %>
<input name="first_name" value="<%= form[:first_name] %>" >

Modular

require "sinatra/base"
require "midas-touch"

class Application < Sinatra::Base
  helpers Sinatra::MidasTouch
end

Creating filters

class StripFilter < MidasTouch::Filter
  def call(value)
    value.respond_to?(:strip) ? value.strip : value
  end
end

# Register filter for Sinatra DSL
MidasTouch.register_filter(StripFilter.new(:strip))

Creating validators

class PositiveNumberValidator < MidasTouch::Validation
  def call(value)
    value.to_f > 0
  end
end

# Register validation for Sinatra DSL
MidasTouch.register_validation(PositiveNumberValidator.new(:positive))

Using inputs

first_name = MidasTouch::Input.new(:first_name)
first_name.filters << MidasTouch.find_filter(:strip)
first_name.validations << MidasTouch.find_validator(:positive)
first_name.value = " Darren Coxall "

# filter
first_name.filter! # => "Darren Coxall"

# validate
first_name.valid? # => false

Using groups

form = MidasTouch::InputGroup.new
form.inputs << first_name # first_name is MidasTouch::Input instance

# form wide filtering
form.filters << MidasTouch.find_filter(:strip)
form.filter!

# validation
form.valid? # => false

Accessing values

# form = MidasTouch::InputGroup.new
form[:first_name] # => "Darren Coxall"
form[:unknown]    # => nil

# Finding the input object
form.input(:first_name) # => MidasTouch::Input

Contributing

All contributions should be tested using Cucumber. To run the test suite do the following:

$ bundle install
$ bundle exec rake

midas-touch

Development