[Rails] Re: ApplicationController: understanding generate scaffold

2008-12-29 Thread Freddy Andersen
The respond_to block is optional, and if the block is missing rails will execute a render :task so for the edit task it will look for the / controller/edit.html.erb file Here is information from the api... http://apidock.com/rails/ActionController/MimeResponds/InstanceMethods/respond_to On

[Rails] Re: ApplicationController: understanding generate scaffold

2008-12-29 Thread Patrick Doyle
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 12:13 PM, Sarah Allen rails-mailing-l...@andreas-s.net wrote: I'm new to Rails and I'm trying to understand the code created by generate scaffold. I'm using Rails 2.2.2. $ ./script/generate scaffold Task description:string generated the following code in

[Rails] Re: ApplicationController: understanding generate scaffold

2008-12-29 Thread Sarah Allen
Patrick Doyle wrote: If you look in app/controllers/application.rb, you will find that ApplicationController is a task that you derived from ActionController::Base. You should be able to find documentation about ActionController::Base at http://api.rubyonrails.org/ ah. This solves the

[Rails] Re: ApplicationController: understanding generate scaffold

2008-12-29 Thread Patrick Doyle
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 2:22 PM, Sarah Allen rails-mailing-l...@andreas-s.net wrote: Patrick Doyle wrote: From one newbie to another... Look at the links created in the index view for your tasks controller. With the default scaffold, you should see three links to the right of each