This tutorial will guide you how to display tabular data in Ruby on Rails with dhtmlxGrid Standard Edition, which is available under GNU GPL. We will end up with a datagrid with in-line editing, sorting, and filtering, which loads its data from server and saves it back to the database using Ruby on Rails.

As an example, we will create a table of users. This is a quite common task nearly for any web application. Working with RoR, we could use scaffolds but they are not so good for navigation on large sets of data. Besides, dhtmlxGrid has client-side editing and filtering functionality, which can simplify things a lot. This is how our final grid will look like:

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Sinatra is a library that allows you to build almost any kind of web-based in a very simple manner. When you code in Sinatra you’re bound only by HTTP and your Ruby knowledge. You'll obviously want to start building tiny web-applications and small services, and that's just what we'll do in this article. By the end of this article by Satish Talim, you'll be able to understand how to install Sinatra and its dependencies and how to deploy the tiny web-app to Heroku.

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Maybe you've heard about Ruby on Rails, the super productive new way to develop web applications, and you'd like to give it a try, but you don't know anything about Ruby or Rails. This article steps through the development of a web application using Rails. It won't teach you how to program in Ruby, but if you already know another object-oriented programming language, you should have no problem following along (and at the end you can find links on learning Ruby).

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