I have an Excel-based UI that I'd like to replicate as closely as possible in a Rails view. I'm looking for a DHTML grid control that ...
Can anyone recommend (either for or against) a DHTML grid they've used in the past?
I'm happy to look at both commercial and free solutions. If you or your company sells such a thing, this is an excellent opportunity to plug it :-)
You may want to look at: Gridify - A Ruby wrapper and Rails plugin for jqGrid
I'd say active scaffold is the mother of grids on rails.
(Rails 3 fork) https://github.com/vhochstein/active_scaffold
Yes, I think GRIDIFY is an excellent solution, the interface is very nice. This plug in can give you a lot of features, you can even sort all the data. I am just beginning with ruby and I can not customize it very well but I think there are many things you can take advantage of.