On Jan 13, 2009, at 11:23 PM, Stephen Waits wrote: > ... resending this since I got no response ... > > > On Dec 4, 2008, at 4:33 PM, Gisborne wrote: > >> I've got some Rails stuff I worked up for a new project (it's a mixin >> alternative to scaffold code for controllers). Might be interesting >> for 20 minutes. I'll come ready to show it. > > > Missed the meeting. Can you share your module here?
Sorry. I intend to share it, but I'm still developing the code. Basically, I'm abstracting out everything that is kind of "could do this with Filemaker" in a pretty standard intraweb application. This includes developing it with a view to the idea that applications ought to be more easily customized by end users. So the list views trivially support end-user modification to choose the fields they want to see, including from related tables. And I'm drawing on some things I've been exposed to that will should make searching easier for Muggles. Users can put together their own perspectives on the data, just by bookmarking the searches that are useful to them. Or they can do a search, and then get an alert when the result set changes or is non- empty. That sort of thing. The end result will be something rather like using Filemaker, only you can jump in with Rails and customize it anywhere you need to go beyond Filemaker like capability. Define the database schema, lay out some HTML, and the basic application is done. This seems like a nice idea to me. None of it's rocket science, but someone should put it together. So I'm developing this with a real intraweb application as its use case. Once the framework starts to solidify, I'll put it up on github. But it's pretty bare bones at the moment. I have the basic controller behaviors for crud operations working for any form that follows Rails naming conventions, and now I'm working on the user-customizable list view. I will probably demonstrate what I have at the next meeting, which should include that plus the basics of the searching. I guess if this sounds amazing to a few people, I could step up the effort to publish it. Anyone want to help with this thing? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
