[Rails] A "Rails" way to design a list-like page with CRUD capabilities?

[Reid Ellis]

On Jan 21, 2005, at 18:17, Joe Van Dyk wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 15:06:47 -0800, Carl Youngblood <carlwork at ycs.biz> 
> wrote:
>> I think it would be even better to leave the list as plain text but 
>> add
>> an edit link next to each person.  When clicked on, the edit link 
>> would
>> change the HTML dynamically so that what previously appeared as plain
>> text now appears as HTML inputs, and when the save button is clicked,
>> the editing is saved in the database using XmlHttpRequest and the HTML
>> inputs change back to plain text without having to refresh the page.
>> This would be the way a next-generation Gmail-like web app would do 
>> things.
>>
> I would love to see an implementation of that.

It may not be running on Rails, but http://flickr.com does exactly this 
kind of thing to edit fields all over the place.

Reid