# Gmail Contacts "like" reference data management gui

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gmail-contacts-like-reference-data-management-gui/135328>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [April 21, 2008, 8:26am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gmail-contacts-like-reference-data-management-gui/135328 "2008-04-21T08:26:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![BelAus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/71c47a/32.png) [@BelAus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/BelAus)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 8:26am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gmail-contacts-like-reference-data-management-gui/135328/1 "2008-04-21T08:26:40Z")

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Hi everyone, The system I am designing will need to be able to manage  
some reference data. It would need a lookup and I really love some  
sort of live search functionality, browse by groups/tags and a detail  
where items can be added or updated. I quite like how you can manage  
your contacts in gmail. How hard would it be to create something like  
the gmail contacts management in Ruby on Rails? Maybe someone has  
already developed something like that in Rails?