ButtonsFor

ActiveView helper to generate Bootstrap buttons and dropdown-buttons.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'buttons_for'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install buttons_for

Run generator to add I18n locales:

$ rails generate buttons_for:install

The gem depends on Bootstrap 3 to create buttons and dropdown-buttons. Bring bootstrap into your project by using Bootstrap for Sass or you preferred method.

buttons_for depends on Font Awesome icon and CSS framework, bring Font Awesome into your project using font-awesome-rails or your preferred method.

buttons_for has multiple helper methods. The API is intentionally made quite simple and does not support url generation or any advanced functionallity. It's just ment as a thin wrapper around link_to and should pass the options transparently.

The helpers you'll use the most provide buttons with a color and a leading icon. The following standard buttons can be used: new, edit, delete and export. These buttons are just wrappers around the button helper giving it options containing icon and button class.

buttons_for also provides a helper for creating dropdown buttons. Use dropdown with a block containing link elements to achive this.

Example show button menu:

<%= buttons_for do |b| %>
  <%= b.dropdown :actions do %>
    <%= b.link "Projects", company_projects_path(@company), icon: "list" %>
  <% end %>
  <%= b.button t(".lock"), lock_company_path(@company), icon: "lock", class: "btn-default" %>
  <%= b.edit edit_company_path(@company) %>
  <%= b.delete company_path(@company) %>
<% end %>
</div>

Example index button menu:

<%= buttons_for do |b| %>
  <%= b.new url_for(action: :new) %>
  <%= b.export url_for(format: :csv) %>
<% end %>

Available options:

• :label - Override standard label.
• :class - Appendse given string to existing CSS classes.
• :icon - Prefix or replace exsiting icon.

The installer copies the file buttons_for.en.yml into your config/locales/ directory. Add a corresponding file with your own locale to translate the buttons.

Sample applicaiton using buttons_for can be found here.

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

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

To test against all supported Rails versions, run:

appraisal rake test

To update all supported Rails to latest patch version:

appraisal update

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