I released a rubygem called ‘netzke-basepack’ which will progressively include several fully functional widgets that can be embedded into Rails’ views or can be used to build a desktop-like web-application. For now netzke-basepack only includes a Grid widget. It supports basic CRUD-operations, pagination, filters, one-to-many associations, moving/resizing columns, and basic configuration window (click the tool-button on the right-top of the grid) to dynamically configure the grid-columns and data-access rights.

The gem can be installed by:

gem install netzke-basepack

and has a dependency on the netzke-core gem. See the README for basic instructions, and follow this blog for the soon-to-come tutorial on more advanced Grid features. A live demo may be announced here soon, too.

The MIT-licensed source code is available on github: http://github.com/skozlov/netzke-basepack/tree/master