A few newbie questions

[Johann Petrak]

As a newbie to both rails and streamlined, I thought that maybe this
combination is exactly what I need: I want to very quickly get an
inhouse app (no beauty or fancy security needs) up and running that
lets users edit several interconnected tables.
Here are my questions:

- what is the best way to install the plugin?

- now that streamline has been changed into a plugin, how does one
proceed when the GUI needs to be adapted? As long as streamline
generated code, I could just change that, but how does this work with
the plugin approach?

- is there a manual?

- are has_many :through relationships supported? The application I
need to implement nearly exclusively needs many to many relations via
a through model, since the relationship is many to many but decorated
with additional attributes.

- does streamlined use/support the REST way of doing things?

[Matthew]

Johann, there are installation instructions for the plugin on the wiki:

http://streamlinedframework.org:8079/trac/wiki/Installation

There are also instructions on the wiki for making modifications to
the Streamlined-generated interface using UI files. You are correct:
you no longer need to modify Streamlined itself to get this to work,
but you do need to create UI files for each of your models to hold the
declarations that change your interface.

http://streamlinedframework.org:8079/trac/

The manual is the wiki, for now. :)

Last I heard, has_many :through was not yet supported, but we hope to
have this in place soon. Justin can probably clue us in better as to
when.

Streamlined hasn't been designed to support REST, but there are parts
of it that will probably work with REST. Other parts may need to be
modified or completely overridden. Some other people on this list
might be experimenting in this area and can provide feedback for you.

Matthew