# Smarter forms?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/smarter-forms/134245>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [April 9, 2008, 8:52am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/smarter-forms/134245 "2008-04-09T08:52:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![kyku](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/34f0e0/32.png) [@kyku](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kyku)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2008, 8:52am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/smarter-forms/134245/1 "2008-04-09T08:52:48Z")

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Hello, has anyone heard of plugin that would intercept a data type of an  
active record field and returned an input field suitable for that field?  
Something like numerical text field for a Fixnum and so on.

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**Author:** ![kyku](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/34f0e0/32.png) [@kyku](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kyku)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2008, 11:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/smarter-forms/134245/2 "2008-04-09T23:54:14Z")

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Funnily enough, active support action view helpers do this.

Julian.

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