Austin On Rails

After months of planning, last night we held the Austin on Rails SXSW Happy Hour and I think we can safely say it was a resounding success! I did not personally count how many people showed up, but I can safely say a few hundred happy SXSW'ers showed up. Kudos to Michal Buffington, Damon Clinkscales and me (Rob Jones) for helping pull this off. I will post some pictures up on the Austin on Rails Flickr Account when I get a minute.

The first revision of the Austin on Rails Member Directory application is up and running so stop by and take a look. To add yourself to the directory, simply click on "Create a new profile". Please let us know if you have any suggestions for the app! Rob

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!

For those of you not attending SXSW Interactive, you might want to check out Bar Camp Austin on Sat, March 11..

What is BarCampAustin? Think of it as a way to get the tech/geek community together in Austin during one of the coolest music and media events of the year; SXSW. Non-Austin equivalents? Well, Dallas beat us to it (not sure how that happened) but think: Usenix? SXSW Interactive? Burning Man? BarCampPaloAlto? Only one thing is certain: It's up to you to decide. The most important thing you should take away from the event? Relationships with other geeks!

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.)