Plugins - Active Scaffold
Add to favoritesMost web applications have many more model objects exposed on the backend, or admin side, than they do on the front. Coding interfaces for all those models is redundant and a waste of resources when all you need is CRUD functionality that’s smart enough to handle all your ActiveRecord associations.
Enter the ActiveScaffold plugin. The successor to the popular AjaxScaffold project that amassed over 36,000 downloads, ActiveScaffold provides you with a wealth of dynamically created goodness:
- An AJAXified table interface for creating, updating, and deleting objects
- Automatic handling of ActiveRecord associations
- Sorting, Search and Pagination
- Graceful JavaScript degradation
- RESTful API support (XML/YAML/JSON) baked in
- Sexy CSS styling and theming support
- More extension points than you can shake a stick at
I agree with Tom. It does take some time getting used to. Figuring out how to customize for my app took me almost two days. That could have been 4 hours if there were some better examples.
Even so, after taking the time to learn it, I'm really thrilled. I just did another data intense rails project and was able to sort out my admin area in less than two hours.
While it takes time and patience to sort out how to use it, it will save you time in the long run.
I agree with Tom. It does take some time getting used to. Figuring out how to customize for my app took me almost two days. That could have been 4 hours if there were some better examples.
Even so, after taking the time to learn it, I'm really thrilled. I just did another data intense rails project and was able to sort out my admin area in less than two hours.
While it takes time and patience to sort out how to use it, it will save you time in the long run.
It takes a bit of getting used to (I wish the docs made fewer assumptions, or provided more complete examples), but as rails plugins go, this one has great documentation, and amazing functionality.
We are building a sophisticated, data-driven site at my company, and active scaffold has held up pretty well for most of our administrative needs.
Have been using this since it was ajax scaffold with generators. I come back to it about every few months or so and every time it gets so much better with more and more features.
This is a great plugin. This changes the way that you will use Ruby on Rails. Data becomes really really cool again.
This plugin is great! Tons of great functionalities, simple to manage and very wel documented. We love it and we use it in almost all our apps..
I found Active Scaffold quite easy to get installed. It has taken some perseverance though to stick with it. The API documentation is relatively broad but a little light in detail at times.
The community is growing though and there are some very helpful people in the google group.
Certainly worth trying for the experience.
it sounds great but it doesn't work following the 'getting started' advice
It seems to be a great plugin, but lots of functionalities simply does not work. I gave up after 2 days of trying to modify the options...