Rails Wizards Pt. 1 |

A wizard (or as I sometimes refer to them, ‘a multi-step form’) is a user workflow pattern where we push users through a sequence of screens to fill out a large amount of data one chunk at a time. It’s the sort of thing where you click “Sign Up” on a site / app and they ask for your first last name, then you click “Continue” and reach a new screen where they now ask for your address, then you click “continue” again and it asks for more data on the next screen etc. It’s also the entire basis of how TurboTax works 😆. Wizards exist because filling out fifty input fields on a single webpage is no fun and users (myself included) generally don’t prefer it.