So after a lot of work (mostly done by the three other members of the team – Richard White, Lance Ivy and Ed Moss) the new shiny version of AjaxScaffold has reached RC1 and is available under its new name ActiveScaffold. Richard White gives a bit more info about it on his blog. This will [...]
We released a new version of AS today which fixes the issues with prototype and rico when using Rails 1.2.1. For details of the issue you can see my previous post. This is simply a fix for the v3 plugin and contains none of the new (and very exciting stuff) coming in v4. It should [...]
There is an issue with the latest release of Rails and AjaxScaffold. Well actually the problem is in a conflict between Prototype and Rico Corner, if you find that all the AJAX stops working – lots of spinning indicators and not much else you have three choices, wait a little and we will likely release [...]
I”ve been asked a couple of times how to dynamically setup the columns displayed by the AS plugin dependant on the permissions of the user, so I though a quick post would be a good idea. Basically its very simple, you simply define a hash of all the columns you potentially wish to display keyed [...]
I released a new version of the plugin today that fixes a few outstanding issues and adds 3 new extension points. The main things that have been fixed are: Single table inheritance now works Legacy table names are now supported The table formats properly under IE The 3 extra extra extension points are do_new do_edit [...]
So before I head off for the first event on my Rails Conf Europe calendar – Pizza on Rails (sponsored by Cominded). I thought I would mention that Richard White and myself have now released version 3.2.0 of the ajax scaffold plugin. This fixes a few bugs and a compatibility problem with generators before version [...]
This release is basically a bug fix. The only really change is to apply the patch kindly provided by Nicola Piccinini which sorts out an issue with file upload from inside the resource manager. There are a couple of other changes to do with the install and version numbers, but that is all internal to [...]
There is a new version of the FCKeditor Rails plugin available details of how to get it and a demo are here. This version fixes a problem with having multiple editors open at once on the same page and also adds a helper to allow multiple editors on the same Ajax form. This also now [...]
AjaxScaffold has been deprecated in favour of ActiveScaffold The aim of this post is to show how to extend or replace the default functionality of the Ajax Scaffold plugin (ASp). I will go over two areas, firstly how you filter the dataset the table displays, and secondly the methods you can override to really gain [...]
AjaxScaffold has been deprecated in favour of ActiveScaffold One of the first things you will probably notice with the Ajax Scaffold plugin (ASp) is that works great if all you want to do is display a table showing all the fields a model has to offer. However, suppose we want to produce a table showing [...]
