Modal windows plugin to rails

Question

Hi,

I'm starting to digg some rails plugins to create modal forms in rails. Almost all documents that you find are too old (2006,2007) or more focused in php. I would like to create a "feedback" tab that when you click on that, it opens a form. For example, you can check the railscast website, http://railscasts.com/. Ryan Bates made it in his website, but didnt make any screencast about it.

any idea/tip about a rails plugin to work with jquery and to do those forms?

Answer 1

Check this tutorial on rails+jquery

6 Steps to Unobtrusive Rails (with jQuery) (Nov 2008 ok for you?)

Then just pick a jquery plugin that suits you and supports some kind of modal display. A little selection for you

• Simplemodal
• Thickbox
• FancyBox
• nyroModal
• Simple JQuery Modal Window
• Modal Panels
• Lightbox
• Block UI
• JqModal
• Pirobox
• JQuery UI Dialog
• Facebox
• Impromptu
• jDialog
• FancyZoom
• Choose Component
• jBox
• Greybox Redux
• Modal Dialog
• Smart Modal

Can't be bothered to insert links to all of them

Answer 2

Thanks for the above listing. I find this link useful as well. There are a few that aren't in the list above, and it gives some screen shots in the post. http://komunitasweb.com/2009/03/jquery-modal-box-round-up/