Rails - Jun 2006 - Idea in development - Dynamic Records

Hi All,

I''ve been working on a client project where by the client can manage
the
some fields/values available in a model.

Here''s a quick writeup: 
http://stephenbartholomew.wordpress.com/2006/06/28/dynamic-records/

The idea is very much in development, but i thought i''d like to put it 
out for feedback. The writeup is also pretty rushed so please excuse :0)

Cheers!

Stephen

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This looks great. A more in depth example of useage might be nice.

Stephen Bartholomew wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I''ve been working on a client project where by the client can
manage the
> some fields/values available in a model.
> 
> Here''s a quick writeup: 
> http://stephenbartholomew.wordpress.com/2006/06/28/dynamic-records/
> 
> The idea is very much in development, but i thought i''d like to
put it
> out for feedback. The writeup is also pretty rushed so please excuse :0)
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> Stephen

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Funnily enough, I''ve been working on something very similar in the  
past week.  It''s a bit of a hack - it allows admins to type in a hash  
as a string, which is eval''d and stored as a serialized hash.  Forms  
are dynamically generated from the hash and the users can play with  
the values there.   Would be interested in seeing what solution you  
came up with.



On 30 Jun 2006, at 16:48, AFM wrote:
> This looks great. A more in depth example of useage might be nice.
>
> Stephen Bartholomew wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I''ve been working on a client project where by the client can
>> manage the
>> some fields/values available in a model.
>>
>> Here''s a quick writeup:
>> http://stephenbartholomew.wordpress.com/2006/06/28/dynamic-records/
>>
>> The idea is very much in development, but i thought i''d like
to
>> put it
>> out for feedback. The writeup is also pretty rushed so please  
>> excuse :0)
>>
>> Cheers!
>>
>> Stephen
>
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Hi,
  That sounds really cool.  I am very new to rails (and ruby), but was 
thinking it could be cool to allow endusers to generate migrations 
dynamically and then run them.  So they add fields (x y z) translates to 
migration to add fields x y z.  Your form template would automagically 
loop scaffold style through fields in a table and make the elements in 
the form.  The problem I see with migrations is that self.down limits 
you to removing added fields in the order they were added, which is very 
limiting.  Anyway, keep us posted!

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Wow, this looks very interesting. I''ve been thinking about something  
like this as I for see needing it for a project coming up for me.  
Keep us up to date :)

Regards,
-carl


On Jun 28, 2006, at 9:17 AM, Stephen Bartholomew wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I''ve been working on a client project where by the client can  
> manage the
> some fields/values available in a model.
>
> Here''s a quick writeup:
> http://stephenbartholomew.wordpress.com/2006/06/28/dynamic-records/
>
> The idea is very much in development, but i thought i''d like to
put it
> out for feedback. The writeup is also pretty rushed so please  
> excuse :0)
>
> Cheers!
>
> Stephen
>
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> This looks great. A more in depth example of useage might be nice.
Thanks :0) I''m planning a more in depth description of it v.soon.  Just
setting up a new blog at the moment so it''ll have a more permenant
home.

Just wanted to see if it''s something others are interested in - looks 
like it is so i''ll keep working on it and keep you posted!

Cheers,

Steve

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