Generating Forms
HTML provides a number of elements, attributes, and attribute values that control how input is gathered. You certainly could hand-code your form directly into the template, but there’s no need to.
In this section, we’ll cover a number of helpers that Rails provides that assist with this process. In Using Helpers, we’ll show you how you can create your own helpers.
HTML provides a number of ways to collect data in forms. A few of the more common means are shown in the following screenshot. Note that the form itself isn’t representative of any sort of typical use; in general, you’ll use only a subset of these methods to collect data.
Let’s look at the template that was used to produce that form:
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