JoeSniff

When using Rspec stories you have plain text stories which we call the 'story' file and the 'story steps' file that maps the plain text story to programmatic code. Generally you end up with your story files not being DRY. This is not a worry, your stories are the domain specific languages detailing your acceptance/integration tests. Its like saying that your Rails Models are not DRY because they ...

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): ...

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 ...