title: How do you do sortable tables plugin for rails?
body: <p>This seems like a classic rails situation: I want to have a my index action display a sortable table of the items. I've looked at (and hacked at) some plugins, notably <a href="http://github.com/thoughtbot/sortable_table" rel="nofollow noreferrer">thoughbot's sortable_table</a> and <a href="http://javathehutt.blogspot.com/2009/06/mo-simple-sortable-tables-in-rails.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Michael Kovacs's</a> <a href="http://github.com/kovacs/sortable" rel="nofollow noreferrer">sortable</a> (the latter I have <a href="http://github.com/sbwoodside/sortable" rel="nofollow noreferrer">forked and improved</a>). However, now I'm finding that sortable is somewhat incompatible with inherited_resources and I'm getting frustrated with fixing code that's not really being maintained.</p>
  
  <p>And yet ... everyone must hit this need in their app, right?</p>
  
  <p>So, what's the best solution? Does everyone roll their own? Is there a plugin I haven't heard of yet? Do people not bother with sortable tables? Is there some javascript/ajaxy thing I should be using instead? I'd love to find a better solution.</p>
  
  <p>Update: should note that my database table is too big to load all of the rows, that would absolutely kill performance.</p>