Documentation

ez-on-rails

It strongly recommend to read the pages in the following basic concepts category to understand whats going on under the hood.

Note that it is strongly recommended to use ez-on-rails only on a fresh system setup. It is designed to be a layer above rails to make many things easier but to have always the ability to get back to the rails basics, hence you have no restrictions by using ez-on-rails.

Table of contents

Basic concepts

• Permission System
• Administration Area
• API
• Render Info
• Partials
• Navigation
• Dashboards
• Layout
• Errors

Generators

• ezapp - Install ez-on-rails on a fresh rails system
• ezdev - Generate some configuration files for development purposes
• ezscaff - Generate a scaffold with everything you need to take it ez
• ezform - Generate forms without database persistent
• ezapi - Generate api endpoints for resources or standalone actions
• eznav - Automaticly build the main navigation structure
• ezdash - Generate card dashboards for resources in namespaces
• ezcontact - Eject the contact form to customize it
• ezhelpers - Eject the helper to customize them
• ezimprint - Eject the imprint to customize it
• ezprivacy - Eject the privacy policy to customize it
• ezuser - Eject everything belonging to the user to customize its behavior
• ezviews - Eject the views and the layout to customize them
• ezwelcome - Eject the welcome page to customize it

Additional features

• Validators
• Active Storage Endpoints
• I18n
• Taggable Associations
• Configuring CORS
• Search all Field

Tipps and tricks

• Polymorphic associations
• Nested Breadcrumb Structure
• Change scaffold redirects
• Use features in custom controllers
• Overwrite or add whitelisted parameters
• Overwrite default whitelisted search parameters
• Overwrite default list orders
• Reject invalid request types

Hints and Remarks

• CSRF and Ajax Requests
• Parameter resolutions in controllers