This Rails plugin allows you to add jQuery datagrids into your applications.

Following features are supported :

• Ajax enabled

• Sorting

• Pagination

• Search

• CRUD operations (add, edit, delete)

• Multi-selection (checkboxes)

• Master-details

• Themes

• And more …

Documentation & live demo are available at www.2dconcept.com/jquery-grid-rails-plugin A sample app is available here : github.com/ahe/jqgrid_demo_app

You can now generate a grid using a command like this one :

$ ./script/generate jqgrid user id pseudo email firstname

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Restful Buttons Example

Add error/validation notification helper method to ApplicationController (or specific controllers). You can then call jqgrid_error_messages_for(@widget) from your controllers.

class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base …

include JqgridNotifiable

… end

Example create method from controller - Note the type json needed for :custom_buttons helper

def create

respond_to do |type|
  type.html {
    params[:widget] ||= {}
    @widget = Widget.new(params[:widget])
    if @widget.save
      flash[:notice] = "Successfully created widget."
      redirect_to @widget
    else
      render :action => 'new'
    end
    }

  type.json {
    widget_params = {
                        :description => params[:description],
                        :amount => params[:amount],
                      }
    @widget=Widget.new(widget_params)
    if @widget.save
      render :json => [true,""]  # use this syntax to pass back messages to jqgrid
    else

#Used to pass error/validation messages to a modal form. Need to include JqgridNotifiable in ApplicationController.

      jqgrid_error_messages_for(@widget) 

    end  
    }
end

end

View <%= jqgrid_restful_add_edit_delete_buttons( :name => “widgets”, :div_object => “widgets”, :base_path => widgets_path ) %>

<%= jqgrid(“Widgets for this Plan”, “widgets”, client_plan_widgets_path(@client, @plan), [ { :field => “id”, :label => “ID”, :resizable => false, :hidden => true }, { :field => “description”, :label => “Description” }, { :field => “amount”, :label => “Amount”, :formatter => ‘currency’, :formatoptions => { :decimalSeparator=>“.”, :thousandsSeparator=>“,”, :decimalPlaces=>0, :prefix=>“$”} } ], { :add => false, :edit => false, :inline_edit => false, :delete => false, :search => false, :width => 650, :custom_buttons => [ {

							:function_name => 'addWidget',
							:caption => nil,
							:title => "Add Widget", 
     						:icon => "ui-icon-plusthick",
							},
							{
							:function_name => 'editWidget',
							:caption => nil,
							:title => "Edit Selected Widget", 
     						:icon => "ui-icon-pencil",
							},
							{
							:function_name => 'deleteWidget',
							:caption => nil,
							:title => "Delete Selected Widget", 
     						:icon => "ui-icon-trash",
							}

] } ) %>

Or, if you want to override the default add/edit/delete functions with your own

<%= jqgrid_restful_add_edit_delete_buttons( :name => “widgets”, :div_object => “widgets”, :base_path => widgets_path, :add_function => %Q(document.location=‘#{ new_widget_path }’;), :edit_function => %Q(document.location=‘#{ widgets_path }/’ + id.toString() + ‘/edit’;) ) %>