For the last month or so, I have been working on a plugin that does
something similar to CRUD, except that it's all AJAX and provides a couple
of nice features for editing things. Obviously, it doesn't work exactly like
CRUD, since I've never really looked at the code for it, but I wanted
something similar that was fast.
Here are some screen shots of how it lists items in a simple, reorderable
list:
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-ZrAVT54bJcg/TfJZni9VRHI/ABQ/UwliZ1DRAjM/Screen%252520shot%2525202011-06-10%252520at%2525201.36.13%252520PM.png
This is the automatically generated editor that shows up with jQuery UI's
Dialog:
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-ZeGy8t8r4Wg/TfJZ1V9CndI/ABY/1ec9UoUvsrI/Screen%252520shot%2525202011-06-10%252520at%2525201.36.39%252520PM.png
Deleting a record is easy too:
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-OpZUcBaVYho/TfJZ9iZEgSI/ABg/9s4aXK5W75o/Screen%252520shot%2525202011-06-10%252520at%2525201.37.04%252520PM.png
A more complex list/details view is available as well:
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-Gws74Fzm9c0/TfJaHA8JEwI/ABo/Gd9SC_VIPEk/Screen%252520shot%2525202011-06-10%252520at%2525201.43.46%252520PM.png
Finally, the last screen shot was made using only this code in the default
controller:
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-pQqexQOxIiE/TfJaQr6QMlI/ABw/wCy9E7FHg2o/Screen%252520shot%2525202011-06-10%252520at%2525201.50.14%252520PM.png
I originally created this functionality for an application I was using, then
eventually turned it into a plugin. As such, it assumes that you use jQuery
UI and the jQuery Layout plugin. It will load the jQuery Layout plugin
automatically if it is in your app/static/js folder, but again, this assumes
that you have your own jQuery UI installation. This is probably the only
draw back so far.
I am not ready to release the code yet, as there is quite a bit of
documentation that would need to be written for it since it does make a few
assumptions when creating your own forms versus allowing the plugin to
create them for you. I am just putting this out there to see if there is any
community interest in this plugin. If enough people are interested, then I
will try to set some time aside to clean up the code, document, and release
the plugin.
