It was just a matter of time before someone built a more effective scaffolding system for Ruby on Rails. Streamlined is a framework with a rich metamodel that enables application generation that improves scaffolding productivity. Part 1 of this two-part series, demonstrates Ruby on Rails scaffolding, illustrating its limitations, and how Streamlined can improve it. Part 2 explores how the impressive metamodel behind Streamlined enables customizations.
I think that the ajax_scaffold_generator is a similar and some how neater looking alternative.
But it was a pain to customize. May be streamlined will prove easy in that regard. It’s worth a look any way.
oldmoe
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Scaffold should be used for development purpose not for production, is something you use to see how you will manipulate your data and the behavior but then you should write your view from scratch, even if you want ajaxed’ pages, write your own.
Rails scaffolding in itself is pretty simple and yes, you need to make your own views. But have you used Streamlined?