Rails: How to insert a text_field without a form just to test the layout?

Question

I am just doing the layout for my app at the moment and I want to insert a text.field that does nothing just to see how it looks. How can I do this?

Answer 1

There are a few ways that could do what you want.

1) just write the static HTML

<input type="text" name="dummy" />

2) Using text_field_tag

<%= text_field_tag "dummy", nil %>

3) Building a dummy form using a form_for for a dummy object

<%= form_for SomeModel.new do |f| %>
  <%= f.text_field :column_name %>
<% end %>