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Extended Rails Scaffolding with ActiveScaffold

by Sebastien Auvray on Apr 23, 2007 |

Scaffolding is an easy way to generate interfaces to edit your Rails data model. It can be really helpful when you need to edit backend exposed models. One month after RC1 release, ActiveScaffold (the successor of AjaxScaffold) made it to RC2. Here is the description, according to the authors:

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

Guaranteed to work on Firefox 1+, IE 6+ and Safari 2+

Released under the MIT License, the same one as Rails itself, so you can use it freely in your commercial applications.

ActiveScaffold installation is straight-forward and comes with a comprehensive tutorial, documentation and demo. In 5 minutes you'll have a neat Ajax interface to browse and edit your model. ActiveScaffold makes it possible to customize and configure your scaffolding. Restful scaffolding will be easily integrated to your routes.

ActiveScaffold is an alternative to the older admin framework Streamlined, which appears to be in or near a state of abandonment after never really gaining much traction.

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Scaffolding in Java? by Jaka Jaksic Posted

Re: Scaffolding in Java? by Butch Landingin Posted

How does this compare with Streamlined? by Curt Hibbs Posted

Scaffolding in Java? by Jaka Jaksic

Very nice! Is there anything similar available for the Java platform? The closest thing I know of is the RIFE framework, but it's rather complex. Is there anything else?

Re: Scaffolding in Java? by Butch Landingin

Seam has a code generation tool called seamgen. It can handle relationships between entities.

How does this compare with Streamlined? by Curt Hibbs

How does this compare with Streamlined?