http://www.hollandonrails.nl/articles/496-Netzke While I didn't have the time to check it out myself yet; a friend of mine recommended me to have a look at <a href="http://netzke.org/" alt="Netztke.org">Netzke</a>. Netzke is a gem designed for usage with Rails which will allow you to easily include ExtJS components into your app (i.e. views). I'm personally not the biggest fan of these semi-native bindings, but <a href="http://blog.writelesscode.com/blog/2010/06/14/extjs-rails-crud-application-in-7-minutes/" alt="ExtJS and Rails: CRUD in 7 minutes">basic usage</a> looks quite simple (and promising). This one goes into the list for usage on a next weekend-side-project.