Feb 14, 2008
A brief examination of some of the major Admin plugins for rails.
Lipsiaadmin
AutoAdmin
ActiveScaffold
Hobo
Streamlined
Lipsiadmin
http://rails.lipsiasoft.com/wiki/lipsiadmin
Google group Members: No group
Live Demo: http://demoadmin.lipsiasoft.org/admin/
Sample Projects: None
This admin framework mixes Ajax/JavaScript (library Ext 2.0 views) and old school HTML. The interface is presented in an application style reminiscent of Microsoft Outlook.
Feature set
http://extjs.com/ JavaScript library.
Generator Admin code.
Permissions support
Live search
Creation of menus within migrations.
Weaknesses
Community seems non-existent
Sparse documentation
AutoAdmin
http://code.trebex.net/auto-admin
Google group Members (http://groups.google.com/group/rails-autoadmin): ...
Jan 18, 2008
The Magically Appearing Admin
Web developers using an MVC framework produce their websites playing with their models, views and controllers. Then by adding a few lines of magic an admin system appears which allows users to add/edit/delete/view/search their models.
Examples:
Django's Magic Admin (Also NewFormsAdmin - a branch of Django focused on making it easier to customise auto-admin)
Ruby on rails Plugins:
Streamlined framework - http://streamlinedframework.org/
Admin magic/config - outside of the ...
Nov 11, 2007
OpenID is an open loosely distributed single sign on protocol. It looks at why Microsoft's single sign on has not taken off on a large scale. Concluding that no-one wants a single company storing all details, hence create a distributed single sign-on protocol.
OpenIDs take the form of URLS:
exampleuser.livejournal.com
OpenID 1.1 Protocol Summary
OpenID specifications |http://openid.net/specs.bml
The openid protocol 1.1 specification in summary.
Identify the Identify Provider associated with openid submitted by the ...
