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Ask NH: Hobo vs. ActiveScaffold for Rails

3 points by tjic ↗ HN
I blogged about writing my own super-duper-meta package for Rails that abstracted out all the common CRUD/REST stuff that one does over and over in each project.

Someone came along and suggested that I check out ActiveScaffold. http://activescaffold.com/

I was thrilled with the ActiveScaffold folks for not only writing the project, but also point folks to competing projects - how classy is that?!

One competitor they pointed to is Hobo ( hobocentral.net/ ). ...which also looks great.

I've downloaded both and am reading the docs, but I'd like to ask:

Has anyone here used either, and what do they think?

Has anyone used BOTH ?

Thanks!

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mahmud
No two "similar" software tools are really similar, it is that one of them better suits your solution and your approach to it.

I recommend you fork your current project and use each in a different fork and see how you like them.

Whoever answers you here will probably tell you how one or the other fit their project better.

sync
Yeah, really depends on your application.

ActiveScaffold is really for admin-side straight to the DB stuff. We use it for our admin interface and it works great up until you want something more than basic CRUD.

Hobo looks a little like rails generators on crack.