Ruby, Rails, Streamlined Version Compatibility

[Green Lantern]

To anyone who can help....

I have not tried to use Streamlined for over a year, but would like to
reengage. My last experiences were frustrated by incompatibilities
between Streamlined, Ruby and Rails when I just could not get code to
work as I understood it from the documentation.

Can anyone recommend the best versions of each of these to use
together to get the most stable results?

My last use was based on:Ruby 1.8.6, Rails 1.2.3 and the then stable
version of Streamlined. I had the most success with this combination,
except with using relationships. I could not locate a version number
for Streamlined in the installed files.

[Kerry Foley]

It looks like the version on github should run with Rails 2.1.1
http://github.com/relevance/streamlined/tree/master

Someone posted to the group that they are working on a Rails 2.2 version
and would be willing to post to github. Feel free to follow up with them
and post any relevant links back here. I don't see that version in any
of the forks on github right now
http://groups.google.com/group/streamlined/browse_thread/thread/10ba062a3790a800

Regards,
Kerry

[Craig Buchek]

As mentioned, if you want to continue using Streamlined, you're
probably best off sticking with Rails 2.1, or even 1.2.

Otherwise, you should consider migrating to ActiveScaffold, or
combining a controller plugin and a view plugin. For the controller
side, the make_resourceful plugin is popular, as is
inherited_resources. I've been working on my own, called crud_actions
(http://github.com/boochtek/rails-crud_actions), but it's still very
rough at this time. Feel free to fork it if you find it useful.

For the view side, I'm looking to use formtastic, which looks pretty
close to what I was planning to implement myself. In some ways, it's
similar to the way Streamlined UI definitions work; I think the syntax
is actually cleaner, and better situated in the view itself. However,
it's only for forms, and doesn't handle show or index views. I plan to
implement a similar pattern for show and index views myself.

Craig Buchek
BoochTek, LLC