Rails, Angular, Postgres, and Bootstrap

Chapter 11Wrangle Forms andValidations with Angular

So far, we’ve treated our application as a producer of information, as it shows data quickly, easily, and in a usable way. But applications need to consume information as well, and that’s what we’re going discuss in this chapter. So far, we’ve designed a complex form that shows the user some information about a customer, and the next step is to let the user modify that information.

A typical Rails application has access to various helpers, both in Active Record and in the view, to give the user a good experience. You can specify that a field is required or must match a certain format (for example, the validators we used with Devise in Chapter 1, ​Create a Great-Looking Login with Bootstrap ...