I have created few static pages with awesome high_voltage gem.
My pages are static, except a different form in each page.
Forms are supposed to grab user details and send emails (and may be save details in db)
Question:
How should I proceed with this ?
I am concerned more about rails approach,
e.g.
Suppose, I would like to save those fields in db, how should I deal with that ?
In nutshell, I want to use as maximum of rails magic without manually dealing with things.
What I have tried ?
Currently, I have forms in each page. Each form posts at same controller (PagesController) with post
method.
I then differentiate them, based on hidden input on respective form.
I do not have any validations for now.
I finally created a model without activerecord, following this great article.
I created a model like below.
class Message
include ActiveModel::Validations
include ActiveModel::Conversion
extend ActiveModel::Naming
attr_accessor :name, :email, :subject, :body
validates :name, :email, :subject, :body, :presence => true
validates :email, :format => { :with => %r{.+@.+\..+} }, :allow_blank => true
def initialize(attributes = {})
attributes.each do |name, value|
send("#{name}=", value)
end
end
def persisted?
false
end
end