ExtScaffold

Scaffolds an entire resource, from model and migration to controller and views, along with a full test suite, just like the standard Rails scaffold generator. The ext_scaffold generator uses the Ext Javascript framwork to build the GUI elements (forms and tables).

Pass the name of the model, either CamelCased or under_scored, as the first argument, and an optional list of attribute pairs.

Attribute pairs are columnname:sqltype arguments specifying the model's attributes. Timestamps are added by default, so you don't have to specify them by hand as 'createdat:datetime updatedat:datetime'.

For example, ext_scaffold post title:string body:text published:boolean gives you a model with those three attributes, a controller that handles the create/show/update/destroy, Ext forms to create and edit your posts, and an Ext Grid index that lists them all, as well as a map.resources :posts declaration in config/routes.rb.

Prerequisites

You need to download the Ext Javascript framework from

http://extjs.com/download,

and unzip it into #{RAILS_ROOT}/public/ext. Ext_scaffold was tested against version 2.0 of the Ext framework.

Installation

script/plugin install http://rug-b.rubyforge.org/svn/ext_scaffold

Example

./script/generate ext_scaffold post # no attributes, view will be anemic

./script/generate ext_scaffold post title:string body:text published:boolean

./script/generate ext_scaffold purchase order_id:integer amount:decimal

Copyright (c) 2008 martin.rehfeld@glnetworks.de, released under the MIT license

Owner: Martin Rehfeld

Home: http://inside.glnetworks.de/2008/01/18/announcing-ext-scaffold-generator-plugin-for-rails/

Repository: http://rug-b.rubyforge.org/svn/ext_scaffold

License: Rails' (MIT)

Category: View Extensions