text_area_for

rubyonrails-talk
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Hi,

I have a form on a page which consists of a bunch of <%= text_field_for blah blah blah %> tags. One of them will contain a lot of text over multiple lines, surely it's possible to do a <%=text_area_for blahblahblah%> ??? I can't seem to find the correct syntax. I keep getting undefined method text_area_for....

any ideas?

cheers,

phil

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Rather then using text_field_for, you should use the syntax favoured by Rails 2.0 (which I presume you're using)--start your form with:

form_for(@article) do |f|

Then you can write things like this:

f.text_field :title # creates a text-field mapped to the title attribute of the model f.check_box :is_published f.submit "Register Me!"

And, of course, the one you asked for:

f.text_area :comments, :cols => 60

Best of all, Rails will handle the mapping to the model, and even putting in data (say, when you edit the form)

I wrote an article on forms in Rails here: Railsrocket.com is for sale | HugeDomains it's more geared towards sharing the new and edit forms, but hopefully will provide some clarity :slight_smile: