LeanScaffold

LeanScaffold can be installed as a plugin (recommended your first time) or as a gem. It allows you to generate a scaffold much like the regular Rails scaffold generator… but leaner… and, well – cooler.

Features

  • Generates a low fat model, controller and set of views
  • Generates a migration and form fields (including the attributes you pass in)
  • Doesn’t include all that other jazz you don’t need (particularly in the controller)
  • Generates a fixture and functional and unit tests (like the normal Rails scaffold generator)
  • Automates the use of a spinner image that swaps itself in place of a form’s submit button upon submission

Usage

script/generate lean_scaffold widget name:string description:text

Attributes and their data types are optional, but will result in populated migrations and generated form fields if provided.

Prerequisites

  • restful_authentication (just becuase it adds ‘before_filter :login_required’ to the controllers, which you can manually remove)
  • Grab a spinner image from http://www.ajaxload.info, name it spinner.gif and drop it in public/images. This image will appear in place of the submit button when you submit a form.
  • Add the following JavaScript to your app:

function spin(){ Element.toggle(‘processing’); Element.toggle(‘submit’); }

After setup

  • Add some CSS for the spinner image that appears when you submit a form, just align the image – pretty straightforward.

Assumptions

What’s a Rails plugin without some assumptions? Well you may notice that this plugin has made some judgement calls for you. For example, links such as “New Widget” and headers such as “Listing Widgets” have been omitted. I use other frameworks/helpers that auto-populate these things, so I intentionally left them out of this generator since we don’t want to add stuff to our views that we just have to immediately strip out do we?

Using the Gem

  • Place the methods located in lib/lean_scaffold_helper.rb in a helper in your application.
  • You do not need to have the plugin installed.

Generated tests

Currently you’ll get (virtually) the same fixtures and functional and unit tests as you would from the normal scaffold generator. Later I’d like to move this to Shoulda and Factory Girl.

License

(The MIT License)

Copyright © 2009 Kenny Johnston

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