How to DRY on CRUD parts of my Rails app?
- by kolrie
I am writing an app which - similarly to many apps out there - is 90% regular CRUD things and 10% "juice", where we need nasty business logic and more flexibility and customization.
Regarding this 90%, I was trying to stick to the DRY principle as much as I can. As long as controllers go, I have found resource_controller to really work, and I could get rid of all the controllers on that area, replacing them with a generic one.
Now I'd like to know how to get the same with the views. On this app I have an overall, application.html.erb layout and then I must have another layout layer, common for all CRUD views and finally a "core" part:
On index.html.erb all I need to generate a simple table with the fields and labels I indicate.
For new and edit, also generic form edition, indicating labels and fields (with a possibility of providing custom fields if needed).
I am not sure I will need show, but if I do it would be the same as new and edit.
What plugins and tools (or even articles and general pointer) would help me to get that done?
Thanks,
Felipe.
