AjaxScaffold

Rails
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Hi,
I have just come across this plugin for rails. Is anyone else here using
it
in their projects? Any good?

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Regards

Andrew

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Andrew M. wrote:

I have just come across this plugin for rails. Is anyone else here using
it
in their projects? Any good?

Briefly, without experience with the actual plugin…

…for anything called “scaffold”, try this experience: Whip out a
sample
Rails site with two models. Create a scaffold for the first model. Then
create one for the second model, and see if the first one still works.

Next, are you targetting an Enterprise solution? (Where everyone uses
the
exact same Starfleet Web Browser?) If you target the open internet, you
should not abuse Ajax. Traditional things like forms and pages should
still
work, but I suspect AjaxScaffold takes over everything. This breaks
the
rule that your site should have Pretty and Bookmarkable URIs.

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Phlip
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On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 11:50:52PM +0000, Andrew M. wrote :

I have just come across this plugin for rails. Is anyone else here using it
in their projects? Any good?

I have used it in the early days of my project. It’s really useful to
show first drafts of the application to your customers: the CSS kicks
ass,
the AJAX too.

Actually, I don’t use it anymore because:
1/ I thing the code is really messy (I don’t like the way the plugin is
coded)
2/ I have so a huge customization to do, that a rewrite was easier.

My $0.02,

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Pierre-Alexandre M. wrote:

I have used it in the early days of my project. It’s really useful to
show first drafts of the application to your customers: the CSS kicks ass,
the AJAX too.

Actually, I don’t use it anymore because:
1/ I thing the code is really messy (I don’t like the way the plugin is
coded)
2/ I have so a huge customization to do, that a rewrite was easier.

I forgot 3/!

3/ Wizards (aka generators) and TDD often don’t mix, and to
rewrite and clean up messy code you generally need unit tests!

So if someone could crack the TDD-for-Ajax nut…

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Phlip
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