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POBest Practice for Creating a Modular Form Spanning Several Different Layouts
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copied!<p>I'm a RoR newbie (v3.2.13), and I'm building a new site/application that has a lot of landing pages, divided into 6-8 different layouts. The layouts are using similar elements in a changing order, so I'm using partials and layout inheritance to render each page appropriately.</p> <p>My problem is that my forms (located at the top of each page) are also inconsistent (for example, while one page might only have a "name" and "email" fields, another will contain an additional "phone" field, a third one might also include a "password", "address" and "country" fields, etc.), and building a different partial for each page seems like a very prodigal approach, DRY wise, not to mention how ineffective it is, especially since I expect a vast amount of new pages in the future.</p> <p>I've researched the forms concept thoroughly but have yet to come up with a solution that I deem good enough, probably due to me being a newbie. Unfortunately I don't have any code to present, since I waited until I make a decision regarding the optimal approach to start coding.</p> <p>What I came up with so far is using jQuery and conditionals within Haml, which I understand are both naive approaches, while I read coding each field into its own partial would be considered an anti-pattern (alternatively - NOT the Rails 3 way).</p> <p>Is there a best practice pertaining to such design issues? Are there any online/other resources I missed that would point me in the right direction?</p> <p>Thanks!</p>

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