http://smerf.cascadia.com.au Simple MEta Rails Form Fri, 08 May 2009 06:40:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm toying with the idea of developing a GUI form designer for SMERF. Initially the GUI would load and create the YAML form definition files so there would be no need for someone to manually code the YAML files. I would like to get your feedback to see if this is ... http://smerf.cascadia.com.au/?p=17 The following changes have been made: Bug fix: As per the bug reported by bgoodwin. SMERF now correctly handles numeric question codes. Previously if a numeric question code was used the validation functions did not work correctly as it was trying to access the responses hash extracted ... http://smerf.cascadia.com.au/?p=16 The SMERF respository has now been moved to GitHub, so to get the latest version go here. Please note: updates will no longer be available from RubyForge. You can easily install the plugin from GitHub by doing something like this, assuming I'm in the root directory of my Rails app:  git clone ... http://smerf.cascadia.com.au/?p=15 This update allows SMERF to be used with Rails 2.2 and the following changes have been made: It appears that making changes directly to the view_paths array has been deprecated in Rails 2.1 onward and #append_view_path or prepend_view_path should be used instead. Template for smerf_init.rb changed to ... http://smerf.cascadia.com.au/?p=14 There have been a couple of people using Rails 2.1 and above that have reported the following error: Status: 500 Internal Server Error   Unprocessed view path found: ".../vendor/plugins/smerf/app/views". Set your view paths with #append_view_path, #prepend_view_path, or #view_paths= It appears that making changes directly to the view_paths array has been deprecated and #append_view_path or ... http://smerf.cascadia.com.au/?p=13 I am pleased to announce a major update to SMERF to V0.1.0, there has been some significant code changes to overcome a number of problems. I would recommend that everyone upgrade to the new version as soon as possible. Changes Most of the problems relate to the use of class variables in ... http://smerf.cascadia.com.au/?p=12 Thanks to Alan Masterson for finding and reporting a bug in the way responses where being handled when using the new selectionbox question type field, release Version 0.0.4 addresses this bug. To update your system you will need to: Download and install the new version ... http://smerf.cascadia.com.au/?p=11 Enhancements Add new selectionbox question type. Add selectionbox_multiselect question option. Update RDoc with new question type details. I've added a new question type using the select field type as requested by Alan Masterson. You can check out the Usage page for more details. ... http://smerf.cascadia.com.au/?p=10 I am happy to announce the very first release of SMERF (Simple MEta Rails Form). SMERF is a Ruby on Rails plugin that allows you to very easily create dynamic forms using a form definition file. You can quickly and easily create surveys, questionnaires, data collection or any other type ... http://smerf.cascadia.com.au/?p=5