Rails plugin for creating dynamic / ajax crud interfaces compatible with Rails 3 beta?

Question

Does anyone know of good stones or plugins for creating dynamic / ajax crud interfaces for Rails 3 projects? I know that the active scaffold was popular before, and it has been a while since I used it / any other gems like this (I usually just write it myself).

I like the direction in which the format stone is formed ( http://github.com/justinfrench/formtastic ), and wonder what else people combine with it.

I also like the generators that Ryan Bates uses, and he seems to be doing updates for Rails 3.

Anything else I'm missing here? (I am also open to gems incompatible with Rails 3, too, I think I can always contribute and try to help them move on to the next step.))

Answer 1

I use admin_data for the main CRUD server of the site running the beta version of Rails 3. I tried several others and had compatibility issues with Rails 3.

Answer 2

There is a fork of active forests compatible with rails3:
http://vhochstein.wordpress.com/2010/08/28/setupactivescaffoldrails3/
Additional Information:
http://github.com/vhochstein/active_scaffold
http://github.com/vhochstein/active_scaffold/wiki
http://groups.google.com/group/activescaffold/browse_thread/thread/b0447f2c3c655a45/f2f3687e7d954590

I take this opportunity to mention some of my personal workloads on AS compared to Rail3:

• AS needs to be separated from AR and work with ActiveModel instead
• he needs to offer some kind of API to introspect the columns so that he can work with other ORMs like Mongoid
• AS configuration should be in one request (instance level) not global (thread safety, easier to crack) or global with no stateless overrides for each request (I hope this makes sense), the first approach is much better

perhaps write everything from scratch ...

PS. AS is one of the best software products that I used, many people do not understand its power due to a rather steep learning curve.

Answer 3

You can dry crud controllers with gemstone inherited_resources: http://github.com/josevalim/inherited_resources

Answer 4

rails_admin was written from scratch for Rails 3 - I use it mostly for every project