On CRUD, Scaffolding, ORM and the like.

[eluser]Colin Williams[/eluser]
I'm interested to hear any horror stories or tales of triumph from any of you out there who have experience with the currently available development tools in CI, like BackendPro, CodeCrafter, IgnitedRecord, DataMapper, etc.

I've been entertaining the idea of distributing a replacement to the deprecated Scaffolding class, which in the end would be some mix of scaffolding, CRUD prototyping, and a different flavor of ORM. You, the CI developer, could interact with it and benefit from it on a number of levels: Use it for expediting model development; use it to prototype your application's object models; use it to generate working CRUD-ready MVC; use it to quickly enter test data or even rely on it for a ready-baked backend interface (all supported by GREAT documentation and a slick API and GUI).

I have little experience with the above-mentioned tools, but I have a good sense of the climate around each based on daily forum perusal. So I'd love to hear what you all are longing for. I have a very specific direction for this project but wouldn't want to move forward without some valuable input de todos mis compañeros de codigo de ignicion.

Fire away.