This works with Rails 3 and rails 3 fork of ActiveScaffold: http://github.com/vhochstein/active_scaffold Usage: active_scaffold :model do |conf| conf.actions.add :config_list end Overview A plugin for Active Scaffold that provides the ability to choose the column to show in the scaffold list at run-time The configuration data will be saved on the session. Rails 3.0 Gem: gem 'active_scaffold_config_list_vho' or gem 'active_scaffold_config_list_vho', :git => 'git://github.com/vhochstein/active_scaffold_config_list.git', :branch => 'rails-3.0' Rails 3.1 Gem: gem 'active_scaffold_config_list_vho' or gem 'active_scaffold_config_list_vho', :git => 'git://github.com/vhochstein/active_scaffold_config_list.git'