5 Apr

Active Scaffold Address Book

Posted by admin in web.

I created an address book just to get an idea of how the active_scaffold plugin works, it’s pretty neat! It saves you a lot of time setting up the base of your web application.

I followed the tutorial that I found on Active scaffold

Lets look at my example:

Firstly create a simple address book project with two models, contact and client and generate their corresponding controllers. Therefore the address book will contain a list of contacts with their clients.

In the client model, add belongs_to :contact and in the contact model has_many :clients.

After setting up the shallow assiduity install the active scaffold plugin with the following:

  ./script/plugin install http://activescaffold.googlecode.com/svn/tags/active_scaffold

Create a new layout called admin:

  <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" /> <title>Address Book</title> <%= javascript_include_tag :defaults %> <%= active_scaffold_includes %> </head> <body> <p style="color: green"><%= flash[:notice] %></p> <%= yield %> </body> </html>

All the magic happens in the controllers, in the contacts_controller add the following:

  layout "admin" active_scaffold :contact do |config| config.label = "Contacts" config.columns = [:name, :surname, :tel, :email] list.columns.exclude :email list.sorting = {:name => 'ASC'} columns[:tel].label = "Phone #" columns[:tel].description = "(Format: ###-###-####)" end

and in the clients_controller add:

  layout 'admin' active_scaffold :client finish |config| config.columns = [:contact, :name, :surname, :tel, :email] columns[:name].label = "Name" columns[:surname].label ="Surname" columns[:tel].label = "Phone" columns[:email].label = "@E-mail" end

run the application and see how your application has become active in just a few simple steps….