Active Scaffold

Acivescaffold is a plugin which makes the life easier for many programmers. Assuming that you have downloaded and installed the plugin. We proceed with an example.

Consider there is a model named as “category” with fields like name, rank and description and we are now integrating this with Activescaffold

Now in controller we need to write the following code:

active_scaffold :category do |config|

config.label = "Category" # Display page name

config.columns = [:name, :rank, :description] # all fields are taken

config.columns[:name].label = "Some Name" # customize column name

update.columns.exclude :rank # exclude rank column during edit

list.columns.exclude :description #exclude description column in list

end

Now in Category_helper.rb we need to write the following code to display the field format Ex:- Textbox, Dropdown , checkbox etc.

# Textbox to enter name

def name_form_column(record,input_name)

textbox :record, :name, :name=> input_name

end

# Label to display name

def name_column(record)

record.name

end

# Textarea to enter the description

def description_form_column(record,input_name)

textarea :record, :name, :name=> input_name

end

# Label to display description

def description_column(record)

record.description

end

# Dropdown to select rank

def rank_form_column(record,input_name)

select(:record,:pricing,[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10],:name=> input_name)

end

# Label to display rank

def rank_column(record)

record.rank

end

That’s it your code will work fine. No rhtml code is required.