title: How can I create a form in Rails without having to use form_for and a model instance?
body: <p>First of all, I'm a Rails newbie. I can hold my own in Ruby, but Rails is a whole different story for me. I like the development speed Rails offers me, but I can't seem to make peace with the existing documentation.</p>
  
  <p>For all of my forms so far, I used <b>form_for</b>, with an instance for the model I needed to create ( for example, submitting a new book ). I would really like to be able to just write something like :</p>
  
  <pre><code>
  &lt;% form(:action =&gt; "whatever") %&gt;
    &lt;% text_field ... %&gt;
    &lt;% file_field ... %&gt;
  &lt;% end %&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>From the articles I read online, I understood that this was the way things got done in Rails &lt; 2.0 . Is there anyway of doing this in Rails &gt; 2.0, or something equivalent to it ? Can you please post a snippet ?</p>