active_scaffold

I've built whole apps out of active_scaffold. Really powerful, but still able to be flexible. https://github.com/activescaffold/active_scaffold

Just allow the users to crud: https://github.com/sferik/rails_admin Need more powerful customization? https://github.com/activescaffold/active_scaffold

ActiveScaffold is the mother of CRUD interfaces. Strange thing is that few know and use it. None of the alternatives compares to it in terms of: instant gratification (usable by default), customization (fully customizable), interoperability (bridges for many major plugins like Devise, CanCan, CarrierWave, Paperclip, and many more). Has some legacy issues being ~ 4 years old - but of little concern. Rails 3.1 ready. https://github.com/activescaffold/active_scaffold

ActiveScaffold is the lost art of administry. I found no other plugin to mach it in terms of features, instant gratification, configurability, code modularity etc. Volker made a titanic job porting to rails 3 (in production on my project), and now official branch is also pushing to rails 3. Only downside is a hard learning curve (ironically it does nothing special other than you usually code Rails apps, just injects methods in controllers and a few other nuts and bolts) Also see: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2546199 I find admin_assistant to be similar to AS but does not compare in terms of features/customizability. I wouldn't call them "generators" more like "code injectors", code that you can override (a natural thing in OOP). Another big + for AS is the plethora of plugins/bridges (that also have the same philosophy of instant g