I'm a long time AS fan. While there are many rails crud/scaffold/admin plugins, and I have analysed them all, none beats the power, customisability and featurefullness of AS.
The only thing that holds it back is the learning curve, wich is strange, because behind it is just plain rails philosophy: controller methods + views with a tasty DSL to plug them together.
A big thanks to Volker for his huge work on pushing it to rails3 compatibility.
The current rails3 branch (Volker's) it very stable.
What remains to be done to make it even more awesome is:
* use nested_attributes_for and clean the custom nested attrs logic
* clean security layer witch at the moment uses gobals (and can only be used in shared nothing deploy)
* request local configuration copy to make it more runtimeasible, at the moment it uses a class var (global-ish) that, for some customisations, needs to be altered per request, and that again leads to only-shared-nothing-deploy
* ActiveModel API so Mongoid can join the fun too
* a child gem that bundles AS to make a fully featured admin interface, competing with rails_admin & friends.
The only thing that holds it back is the learning curve, wich is strange, because behind it is just plain rails philosophy: controller methods + views with a tasty DSL to plug them together.
A big thanks to Volker for his huge work on pushing it to rails3 compatibility.
The current rails3 branch (Volker's) it very stable.
What remains to be done to make it even more awesome is:
* use nested_attributes_for and clean the custom nested attrs logic
* clean security layer witch at the moment uses gobals (and can only be used in shared nothing deploy)
* request local configuration copy to make it more runtimeasible, at the moment it uses a class var (global-ish) that, for some customisations, needs to be altered per request, and that again leads to only-shared-nothing-deploy
* ActiveModel API so Mongoid can join the fun too
* a child gem that bundles AS to make a fully featured admin interface, competing with rails_admin & friends.