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Ruby Build a Simple Ruby on Rails Application Customizing Forms Installing simple_form

Posted by Ryan Jones
Ryan Jones
941 Points

troubleshooting bootstrap and simple-form

I can't seem to get the form on my site to respond to bootstraps classes. I'm still new to ruby on rails so i'm not really sure where to start to diagnose what is causing this.

```<%= simple_form_for(@status, :html => {:class => "form-horizontal"}) do |f| %> <% if @status.errors.any? %> <div id="error_explanation"> <h2><%= pluralize(@status.errors.count, "error") %> prohibited this status from being saved:</h2>

  <ul>
  <% @status.errors.full_messages.each do |message| %>
    <li><%= msg %></li>
  <% end %>
  </ul>
</div>

<% end %>

<%= f.input :user_id %> <%= f.input :content %> <div class="form-actions"> <%= f.button :submit %> </div> <% end %> ```

this is the code that I am running but my form isn't responding to the classes. like it's not displaying horizontal and just looks plain bad. Any ideas on how to fix this would greatly be appreciated.

David Curtis
David Curtis
11,301 Points
David Curtis
David Curtis
11,301 Points

first thing i would check is to make sure you have bootstrap set up properly.