I third ActiveScaffold. It has become a quality, mature plugin. On Nov 12, 7:11 pm, Bobnation <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 11, 11:13 pm, "Micheal Cooper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I am currently using a very early framework called ERW, and I getting > > into Ruby so that I can recreate (with paid help) a very large college > > administration db app in Rails. Until relatively recently, I was going > > to do this in Django, and one reason for the choice was Django's > > excellent feature of automatically generating the basic CRUD forms > > (Django calls them admin forms) for a newly-created database. The > > framework I am using now also has this feature, though it is overly > > complex and difficult to maintain. > > The current scaffold generator is RESTful, and builds migrations based > on the input you give to the generator. If you are looking to set up > your database and then have a generator build the CRUD forms from that > database scheme, then you'll want to look at the ActiveScaffold seen > in a prior comment. > > > I want to know if there is a feature in or add-on to Rails that looks > > at the database and creates customizable CRUD interfaces for all > > tables, including selectable foreign keys and filters, etc. Ideally, > > the forms would be scripts that can be filled-out and customized and > > only need to be recreated when the database has been changed. > > > ERW's admin interface is PHP code that dynamically creates the forms > > when you call the script, and customization requires precise and > > redundant coding because generic scripts are used to create all the > > CRUD forms. For example, all admin list interfaces are done by > > list.php, so getting an admin list for table people requires going to > > 'list.php?table=people'. > > > I am hoping that ROR has a better way. > > > -- > > Micheal Cooper > > Miyazaki, Japan (GMT+9, no DST)
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