I probably goes without saying, but when you are starting out with a new project, it is best to get as much of the framework available to your customer up front. Stick with as much bland as possible (e.g., wire frame) so that it's obvious that colors, graphics, etc. are not the focus up front. What good is the fancy shine when there is little functionality.
I spent a good amount of time looking for a tool that I could use to create wire frames that could be easily published and couldn't find one that would generate actual RoR views that could be published. The best tool I found was only for Windows and I use a Mac. With wire frame views in place along with the ability to navigate from resource to resource, it would be very easy to prioritize the pages and add actual functionality/color/graphics to that particular resource.
Active Scaffold is very interesting and is an example of using convention to save time in creating forms based on model configuration. I realize it's asking quite a bit, but it would be nice to have a tool where controls could be drawn/resized/etc and then published to RoR views.
It might be something worth looking into.
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