I recently wrote a blog post describing how to create your own RubyGem. The sample gem produced, aptly named dogeify, converts English sentences into "Doge" based upon the recently popular meme. For April Fools' Day, we thought it would be fun to implement this gem to convert our entire site into doge. Here's how we did it.

Implementing forms that are associated with models -- specifically ActiveRecord objects -- is pretty common when developing with Ruby on Rails. In fact, the built-in FormHelper assumes that you're working with some kind of persisted object.

But what happens when you want to create a form for something that is not persisted by an ActiveRecord model?