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About a year ago I started working with hobo and really liked what I saw. I could do some amazing things really fast. The only piece that felt like it was missing something was the table-plus tag. So I started working on an alternative and decided to start from the well known jqGrid widget. I went on to install every rails jqGrid plugin in existance and found that none of them were quite what I wanted. In the end I create my own basic rails plugin.

The main features of my incarnation of the jqGrid plugin are:

• Uses a rails model directly instead of the limiting auto-detect method
• Uses a randomly generated id name so you can put as many grids of the same or different types as you want on the same page
• Direct editing of the jqGrid properties through hash properties e.g. :title => “Title”
• Easy to edit default jqGrid properties (plan to take it a step further and implement them as yaml later)
• Uses the # symbol as the first character to identify a function property (I implemented the ondblclickrow property this way)
• Double clicking on rows and anything else that is possible with the jqGrid widget…