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

We used active_scaffold for an internal project. Its awesome to get a basic CRUD app going. https://github.com/vhochstein/active_scaffold

Overall, a good summary. > Since there is no more will_paginate in Rails 3, the only option is kaminari. This version of will_paginate seems to be fine in Rails 3: https://github.com/mislav/will_paginate/tree/v3.0.pre2 While I'm on the Rails 3 things you can find on Github topic, ActiveScaffold has a nice Rails 3 port here: https://github.com/vhochstein/active_scaffold

Volker's fork works great on Rails 3, and also supports jQuery https://github.com/vhochstein/active_scaffold

You should check active scaffold plugin for rails. (fork http://github.com/vhochstein/active_scaffold for rails 3)