inputomatic

Inputomatic

What if instead of over-engineered date pickers for web apps people could enter dates like, Next week, March 20, 2022, 1 year from now, etc?

How many times have you been annoyed that your expense reimbursement application can't do simple math like 200 / 2 because you only need to expense half the item?

Inputomatic handles these use cases so you can build more powerful web applications with simpler user interfaces.

Installation

Install the gem and add to the application's Gemfile by executing:

$ bundle add inputomatic

If bundler is not being used to manage dependencies, install the gem by executing:

$ gem install inputomatic

Usage

In your ActiveRecord models, add the following to enable inputomatic:

class Expense < ApplicationRecord
    belongs_to :report

    # Enable inputs like `100/2`, `13 + 78.9`, `80 - (90 / 2)`, etc.
    # which evaluates to the expected arithmetic number.
    attribute :amount, Inputomatic::Number.new

    # Enable inputs like `Next week`, `1 year ago`, `37 minutes from now`,
    # `Tuesday`, `Mar 3`, `10-10-2022`, `August 3, 2027`, `5:00p`, etc.
    # which evaluates to the expexted DateTime.
    attribute :expensed_at, Inputomatic::DateTime.new
end

Further reading

Learn more about Inputomatic.

• Humane Rails Forms - Article about how forms can be made more humane in Rails with inputomatic.
• Demo App - Demo rails app where you can try the form fields
• Demo App Repo - Source code of demo app

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec 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 the created tag, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

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

License

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

Code of Conduct

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