The Ruby on Rails framework has gained a huge amount of popularity for making it easy to create database-driven Web applications based on the model-view-controller paradigm. However, while Rails' built-in "scaffold" generator will create a basic set of CRUD (create, read, update, delete) pages based on a model, the generator lacks support for relationship definitions, offers no help for iterative model changes, and provides precious little in the way of page styling.

The ActiveScaffold plugin for Rails solves these problems by introspecting your ActiveRecord models and dynamically generating a CRUD interface, making the job a lot less tedious for those working on the front end. Read about it in this week's Linux zone feature:

• Turbocharge Ruby on Rails with ActiveScaffold

Until next week,
Tom Young, dwnews@us.ibm.com
Linux zone editor