Active scaffold is a plug in provide Ajax based user interface for a rails project. You can use it for Admin side activities An AJAXified interface for creating, updating and deleting objects

• Automatic handling of ActiveRecord associations


• Sorting and Searching


• CSS styling and theming support


• Work on Firefox 1+, IE 6+ and Safari 2+


• Released under the MIT License, the same one as Rails itself, so you can use it freely in your commercial applications.

Step-1:
Install the plugin from the url:

./script/plugin install http://activescaffold.googlecode.com/svn/tags/active_scaffold

Step-2:
Add to your layout

<%= javascript_include_tag :defaults %>

<%= active_scaffold_includes %>

Step-3:
Add to your controller

active_scaffold :model_name

Active scaffold requires a separate controller for a single model.If you do not want some attributes fields...
Add to your Application controller

  ActiveScaffold.set_defaults do |config|

     config.ignore_columns.add [:created_at, :updated_at, :status]

  end

or you can add to your controller for the attributes fields you want to to display

  active_scaffold :TechniquesEmployed do |config|

     config.label = "Techniques Employed"

     config.columns = [:techniques_employed]

     columns[:techniques_employed].label = "Technique Employed"

  end