Add a multi-step form/wizard to your Rails app | Rails Designer

Over the years there have been many an article that suggest shorter forms have a positive impact on user experience (UX). Aside from a better experience, having shorter forms also means collecting less data on your users. Good for your users, good for you. Rails has had the wicked gem for a long time that helps set this up. But to me, this kind of feature is not something I would outsource to a gem. More importantly it is really not that difficult to build and by fully owning the code, you are free to tweak it to make it fit your app. In this article I am laying out how I would go about a multi-step form used for onboarding new users to my app. Something like this:.