# Suggestions on how to support user-customizable views and forms?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/suggestions-on-how-to-support-user-customizable-views-and-forms/182922>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [February 4, 2010, 9:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/suggestions-on-how-to-support-user-customizable-views-and-forms/182922 "2010-02-04T21:07:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![JeffV](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/5fc32e/32.png) [@JeffV](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/JeffV)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 9:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/suggestions-on-how-to-support-user-customizable-views-and-forms/182922/1 "2010-02-04T21:07:47Z")

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I’ve searched the archives and googled and can’t find much on this. I  
need to allow an app admin to be able to define the layout of various  
views (and eventually various forms). The admin should be able to  
specify a row and column number for each field they want presented

I’m thinking a view could look something like this:

\<% = @layout.title %\>

 \<% @layout.rows.each do |row| -%\> \<% row.columns do |col| -%\> \<% end -%\> \<% end -%\> 

| **\<%= col.label %\>** | \<%= col.model.send(col.method) %\> |

The “col” object contains the field’s label, db model class name, and  
model method (could be a column attribute or any model instance  
method).  
The “row” object, so far, is just an array of col objects.

I don’t have the db design for this yet either.

Thanks for any and all suggestions.

Jeff