Austin On Rails

We'd like to remind everyone to please come on out to the Austin on Rails Happy Hour at Buffalo Billiards (6th and Congress) on Saturday, March 11th from 6-8pm. We'll have some drink tickets (if you get there early) and food will be available for purchase. Pool tables, shuffleboard, and foosball will also be available in our private room. The event is on upcoming.org if you'd like to let us know you're coming. We'd also like to thank Michael Buffington for his help with the party. We look forward to seeing you there this weekend!

Ajax Scaffold Generator

Richard White has created an Ajax Scaffold Generator for Ruby on Rails. This takes the default scaffolding that Rails produces, and turns it up a notch. Now your admin pages can do a lot of CRUD on the same page.

The latest 2.0 version of the tool features:

• The generated scaffold code looks production ready: valid XHTML, CSS, fully styled.
• It now uses a <table>
• Its designed to be used as a component so you can easily create an admin console with a couple generated scaffolds.
• A number of CSS styles have already been included for commonly used elements like required field labels, example field input and for some basic form layout control (explained later in this article).
• Works on Firefox 1+, IE 6+ and Safari 2+ (It make work on others, but I haven’t tested anywhere else, so let me know what you find out)

(Via Ajaxian.)

A few of us are working on a member directory Rails application for this site. We plan to have authentication and image upload, so stay tuned! If you are interested in helping us code, drop me a line at rob@nonewmessages.com