i didnt understand "friendly", but a CustomField-Models is similar to what i said is sugar-crm doing....and u can do the same in rails. only the views needs to be adapated / can b cumbersome, unless someone has a solution for that. to me, i do more flex and have all custom fields in a simple datagrid
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 9:41 AM, Mark Coates <mark.coa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Frank-- > > Take a look at http://friendlyorm.com/. That sounds like what you > need... You can then evolve your data models on the fly. > > Or you could do something like create a CustomField model and make > your User model so that it 'has_many' custom fields. You could even > make it bi-directional and your CustomField has_many Users. > > Hope that helps. > > --Mark > > On Jan 6, 10:39 pm, "frankjmat...@gmail.com" <frankjmat...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> the question that could summarize this in a nutshell is this: >> >> does the orm structure of rails make it a poor framework to implement >> a small erp/crm solution? >> >> if you got that then please read ahead - i need some suggestions... >> >> ive been making an app for my small business. now believe me, i know >> there's a ton of solutions out there but coding is more like a >> recreational activity so i enjoy doing it regardless... >> >> my program has the basic ability to generate quotes, track my >> inventory and all the basic functions however i'm finding it more and >> more difficult to make it extensible. >> >> for example - i have a customer model (to put it simply) and say i >> want to add an TaxID column... i can use migrations and update all of >> my forms and blah blah blah... most "good" crm programs allow you to >> add this functionality on the fly - i would like to add that >> functionality. >> >> don't get me wrong - i dont care about the UI design and javascript >> thats involved... that's all secondary to me. i want to know at the >> model/controller level if this sort of thing is not only possible but >> probable with rails. (by "this sort of thing" i mean dynamically >> creating/altering models on the fly with a running app). >> >> Thanks in advance - hopefully someone with deep insight will step up >> to the plate for me. I've asked around and i've yet to receive >> anything that looks like a helpful answer. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. > > > >
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