Advanced Topics

• Custom Association Options: customizing drop downs to select associated records
• Chaining Form Fields: updating a form field when another field changes
• Enum Columns: DRY way to store a value in DB and show a text in list and drop down fields.
• Localization Reference: how to localize or change ActiveScaffold's headers and links.
• Action Links Order: changing order of action links in list
• Action Links Groups: grouping action links
• Per-Request Configuration: changing ActiveScaffold configuration depending on request parameters or current action
• Security: how to restrict actions
• Search on second order association
• Custom respond_to: overriding controller responses
• Embedded Scaffolds
• Look and Feel Customization
• Default values: How to set default values for new records in forms or even add logic
• Adding Custom Actions: Bits from ActiveScaffold which you can use to add custom actions
• Customizing Forms with Javascript: How to add some JS behavior to your forms in an unobtrusive way.
• Speed Up Startup Time: How to speed up starting an app with many controllers