I have searched the web high and low but could not find anything so I
find myself forced to ask here - could so. pls. provide a link to some
discussion or blog post that explains the rationale behind removing
those helpers? What am I to do instead?
I have no plans to complain at all, I'm merely interested in the
background of this decision, since I believe it's a little more far-
reaching than one might think from this one innocent commit
If you are talking about view helpers that generate HTML for forms and validation errors, to me it’s pretty obvious why they were removed: they were like dynamic scaffold in old versions of rails — one magic method, lots of magic output, no way to easily see and customize what’s going on. You could be using these methods for a limited time, but if you at one point decided you want something slighty more different, you’d have to ditch these helpers and recreate the complete HTML yourself, which could lead to frustration (small change => lots of work => sad face).
Generators are much better. The code is right in front of you, it teaches you, you can edit it or remove it with one swift keystroke. I’m not sure if the functionality removed recently is available in generator form, though. No big loss if it isn’t.
I was also asking because I don't seem to have any error messages on
the model object right now... (didn't verify it by checking rails code
yet, busy with other stuff)