Colin Law wrote: > On 24 April 2010 14:34, Marnen Laibow-Koser <li...@ruby-forum.com> > wrote: >> >> But what's going on is easy enough to understand and fundamental. > > I am not sure that it is necessarily easy to understand for the > absolute beginner.
Perhaps not, but it's necessary to understand it in order to do anything else with Rails. > I think maybe what I meant was that having the > code automatically produced and in front of one can help in the > initial understanding of how to do basic things such as create and > update such that they become easy in retrospect. > That I might agree with (although I tend to use make_resourceful for CRUD). > I don't think there is an absolute answer as to whether scaffolding is > a 'good thing' or not. I believe that, for me, it was helpful, but > for others maybe not. You're right, there's no absolute answer. I've seen too many people treating generated scaffolding as sacred and unmodifiable, which is perhaps partly responsible for my attitude. Also, I cut my teeth on Rails 1.x, back in the days of the scaffold *method*, which really was a useless, overhyped newbie hook. The scaffold *generator* is admittedly much better. > > Colin Best, -- Marnen Laibow-Koser http://www.marnen.org mar...@marnen.org -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
