Database to CRUD application, Rails 3

Question

I have a fairly large DB schema and about 100M rows with I would like to expose to the web, using Rails 3. By exposing to the web, I mean the following:

• A REST api (json & xml)
• Views to present the data hierarchically
• Editors for specific parts of the data

Basically, what I am looking for is a way to run the rails scaffold command with the appropriate arguments automatically. I know that magic_model can do some parts of the reverse engineering itself, but it does not seem to be working with Rails 3.

Is there any tool that can automate the generation of scaffolding?

Answer 1

You could give the following gems a try:

• ActiveAdmin -> Though more of admin framework, it has an appeasing user interface and will aptly satisfy your scaffolding needs.

• ActiveScaffold -> A simple auto-scaffold generation framework