Streamlined is an awesome Rails generator that lets you very rapidly build full maintenance and admin interfaces for your Rails applications. In many ways it’s equal to, and in some rivals, features in the admin side of Django.
The Streamlined chaps announced yesterday that they have just released Version 0.0.6. There are some breaking changes in there and the team aren’t really convinced as to what they all are. So, help out! Grab the generator, try it and provide feedback.
The bigger news though is the announcement of just what will be in Streamlines 0.0.7. Currently it’s a generator that you run at the command line to generate a bunch of source code in your project. As of 0.0.7 though Streamlined becomes a Rails plug-in known as ‘acts_as_streamlined’. This means of course that it’s going to be easier to update in place in your project, the code is a lot cleaner, and you no longer need to write ugly subclasses of StreamlinedController to get going.
The team have also changed the way they are managing their source in an effort to make it easier for people to contribute to the project.
[...] Streamlined “is a framework, on top of Rails, that allows you to quickly generate interfaces for your ActiveRecord models. It started as a way to generate Administrative backends, but has become more general purpose over time.” Looks way classier than scaffolding, but it’s also having a bit of code ferment right now as it switches from being a generator to being a plugin. Another one to dig in when I get the chance. (via CodeHappy) [...]
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