I was tooling through a form setting text_field sizes ( the default of :size => 30 is a bit big for me ) and my “cut-n-paste is bad” alarm when off. There had to be a better way to set the form tag defaults. A few minutes on Google and Noobkit provided an answer:
InstanceTag::DEFAULT_*
For instance,
ActionView::Helpers::InstanceTag::DEFAULT_FIELD_OPTIONS [...]
Rails Tag Helper default values