What is form helper in Rails?
Forms in web applications are an essential interface for user input. However, form markup can quickly become tedious to write and maintain because of form control naming and their numerous attributes. Rails deals away with these complexities by providing view helpers for generating form markup.
What is Form_tag in Rails?
The first example I'm going to go over is form_tag. form_tag generates an HTML form for us and lets you specify options you want for your form. In the example below, we use the rails method, url_for, to create a URL we want the form to submit to.