Elevator 0.1 released

Like many Rails developers, I have had a love-hate relationship with scaffolding. The offer of an easy, "instant" Rails app is alluring, but I found the results lacking. And yet, I find myself doing the same sort of things over and over again. Generator to the rescue!

In the "Rails tradition", Elevator is something I've extracted from repetitive efforts on a trio of recent projects. Whereas traditional scaffolding presents a "wiki-like" interface (full control - edit, create, delete - for all users), elevator creates separate admin-side and user-side controller and views. And the results are "pretty" - solid XHTML, simple CSS, icons from famfamfam.

There are a number of similar projects right now (AutoAdmin, Streamlined), and I doubt Elevator will rival them in complexity - which I consider to be a feature in itself.

Elevator is hosted at RubyForge: http://elevator.rubyforge.org/

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