Are there any Rails plugins that allow for Excel-like functionality in the views?

Question

I am looking for a way to allow web users to view tabular information in a view, and interact with the data in a similar way. In other words:

Tab through cells Highlight multiple cells Fill multiple cells simultaneously

Does such a plugin exist? I have not been able to locate one via search engines.

Answer 1

Maybe activescaffold is what you want? http://activescaffold.com/

Answer 2

Check out something like Google's charting API, it includes an interactive table which can be sorted by headers etc. It doesn't look like it does editing, but I'm not sure if that's a requirement for you or not. If you need an editable table, I guess you'd be looking for a specialised wysiwyg editor in javascript for that.