ActiveScaffold is the lost art of administry. I found no other plugin to mach it in terms of features, instant gratification, configurability, code modularity e

ActiveScaffold is the lost art of administry. I found no other plugin to mach it in terms of features, instant gratification, configurability, code modularity etc. Volker made a titanic job porting to rails 3 (in production on my project), and now official branch is also pushing to rails 3. Only downside is a hard learning curve (ironically it does nothing special other than you usually code Rails apps, just injects methods in controllers and a few other nuts and bolts) Also see: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2546199 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2546199 I find admin_assistant to be similar to AS but does not compare in terms of features/customizability. I wouldn't call them "generators" more like "code injectors", code that you can override (a natural thing in OOP). Another big + for AS is the plethora of plugins/bridges (that also have the same philosophy of instant gratification): https://github.com/vhochstein https://github.com/vhochstein https://github.com/vhochstein/active_scaffold/tree/master/lib/active_scaffold/bridges https://github.com/vhochstein/active_scaffold/tree/master/li... For example add CanCan to Gemfile, define abilities and BAM - user are restricted accordingly. Shameless plug: CanCan bridge and a few others are contributed by yours truly. Oh, and it's also highly documented (thanks Sergio & team) https://github.com/activescaffold/active_scaffold/wiki https://github.com/activescaffold/active_scaffold/wiki Anyway, Puffer looks nice.