acts_as_flexigrid

ActiveRecord plugin to use easily Flexigrid that is jQuery plugin for grid table

Installation

gem install acts_as_flexigrid

How to use

1. Download Flexigrid from http://flexigrid.info/ and place javascript and css files.

2. Include to models

class Site < ActiveRecord::Base include ActsAsFlexigrid end

3. Get json response for Flexigrid

class SitesController < ApplicationController

def index
  @sites = Site.where({...})
  respond_to do |format|
    format.html
    format.json do
      if params.delete(:flexigrid).present?
        @site = @sites.flexigrid(params)
      end
      render :json => @sites
    end
  end

  ...

4. Set javascript and view

application.js

$("#sites-grid").flexigrid({
method: "GET",
url: "/sites.json?flexigrid=true",
dataTyep: "json",
colModel: [
  {display: 'Name', name: 'name, sortable: true},
  ...
],
searchitems: [
  {display: "Name", name: 'name, isdefault: true},
  ....
],
sortname: "name",
sortorder: "asc",
usepager: true,
rp: 10
})

view / app/views/sites/index.html.erb

Copyright

Copyright (c) 2011 Akihiro Matsumura. See LICENSE for details.