Auto-saving Rails forms with Turbo Streams

10-Jan-2025 38
What’s autosave? Autosaving is saving a user input automatically on changes, lost focus or after an interval of no interactivity without any specific user action. Typically in inline forms. To make things straigtforward let’s say we want to save a post’s title while reusing an existing update action that can save the title or perhaps all the post’s attributes. They are couple options to go around it, but here’s how I do it. You just need Turbo and Stimulus installed.
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