ActiveScaffold, Acts_as_taggable_on_steroids
Update: also read Active Scaffold + Acts_as_taggable + Auto Completion.
This is kind of an advanced topic, but I think it may be useful to a lot of people.
ActiveScaffold is a great plugin to start building a user interface. The great thing about AS is, that is automatically recognizes associated models. When editing a model, you can easily add or select another model that you want to associate with is.
The best example of this is an Article, where you can select the author (the associated User model) with a drop down box.
There is only one point where I ran into trouble with ActiveScaffold: acts_as_taggable_on_steroids.
Acts_as_taggable_on_steroids allows you to easily attach tags to models and do all kinds of crazy stuff with them. But, if you want to integrate in into AcitveScaffold, you’re in for a tough ride.
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