Hey everyone, I''m looking for a good way to display a table of data in rails. I want something with scroll bars and resizable columns. Am I crazy for trying this? Is there a class or such already written that makes pretty data grids? -Josh ----------- Due to the recent increase in spam and falsely sent email, I now PGP Sign all of my outgoing mail to prove my identity. This means that you will see an attachment called "PGP.sig" with this message. This attachment can be used to prove that I am who I say I am. If you are not familiar with PGP, you can safely ignore it. For more information, please visit http://www.pgp.com/ or http://www.gnupg.org/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: PGP.sig Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 194 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/attachments/20060220/932a2956/PGP.bin
Hi Joshua> I''m looking for a good way to display a table of data in rails. I > want something with scroll bars and resizable columns. Am I crazy > for trying this? Is there a class or such already written that > makes pretty data grids?You should have a look at http://richardcowin.typepad.com/blog/ 2006/01/new_livegrid_ma.html OpenRico''s LiveGrid is an on-demand data grid, which enabled you to work with large datasets. From the site: The LiveGrid behavior takes an ordinary Html table and: ? Connects it live to Ajax data requests ? Creates a scrollbar that becomes the live data navigator for the table. ? Automatically populates the data into the cells. ? Employs data buffering and event compression strategies to improve performance. It doesn''t have column resizing yet, but it would be a nice addition, everyone would benefit from it. So, if you have some JavaScript knowledge, please have a go at it ;-) Best regards Peter De Berdt
On 20 Feb 2006, at 23:19, Joshua Gitlin wrote:> Hey everyone, > > I''m looking for a good way to display a table of data in rails. I > want something with scroll bars and resizable columns. Am I crazy > for trying this? Is there a class or such already written that > makes pretty data grids?Or you could have a look at http://ajaxian.com/archives/screencast- data-grid-as-example-of-rich-ajax It seems to have everything you ask for. Best regards Peter De Berdt
On 21 Feb 2006, at 09:59, Peter De Berdt wrote:> > On 20 Feb 2006, at 23:19, Joshua Gitlin wrote: > >> Hey everyone, >> >> I''m looking for a good way to display a table of data in rails. I >> want something with scroll bars and resizable columns. Am I crazy >> for trying this? Is there a class or such already written that >> makes pretty data grids? > > Or you could have a look at http://ajaxian.com/archives/screencast- > data-grid-as-example-of-rich-ajax > > It seems to have everything you ask for.... except "real browser" capabilities, i.e. it only runs on Internet Exploder for the time being. Shows tremendous promise however at an equally tremendous price. But at least it shows what JavaScript can do. Now... let''s find some JavaScript geniuses out there that want to make something like this and provide it under a not-so-commercial license ;-) Best regards Peter De Berdt