Re: [Rails] Scaffolding for pre-existing database table in 2.0.1

2014-10-03 Thread Jason Fleetwood-Boldt
I generally do not use the rails built-in scaffolding generators. They are from the early days of rails and while they may have some usefulness, they do not save me time in the long run. One table that contains over 100 column fields doesn't sound like a good database design -- maybe you shoul

Re: [Rails] Scaffolding for pre-existing database table in 2.0.1

2014-10-03 Thread Jason Fleetwood-Boldt
Although old, ActiveScaffold is still an excellent, efficient, unobtrusive, scalable, and highly effective solution to build out lots of quick list views (complete with searching, sorting, and pagination) and CRUD actions. Check out: http://activescaffold.com The front-end isn't very aestheti

[Rails] Scaffolding question

2014-02-10 Thread Phil Dobbin
Hi, all. I'm relatively new to Rails though I have completed the Depot app in the book 'Agile Web Development with Rails 4' & I'm looking for advice. I'm attempting to construct RailsBootstrap & have used Passenger to install nginx & have installed the rails gem & have issued the 'rails new' comm

Re: [Rails] Re: rails scaffolding issue

2010-09-07 Thread radhames brito
whan you scafolded you didnt spefified the field of the database , the scafold creates empty views in that case , i think you didnt pass the fields because the scaffold fills the migration with them if you do, since i see the migration is empty that mians you did this script/generate scaffold p

[Rails] Re: rails scaffolding issue

2010-09-07 Thread JuKuen
If i understand it right, in new scaffold need to be specified each column from the existing db? In my case: ruby script/generate scaffold Post title:string body:text author:string status:string created_at:datetime updated_at:datetime And it will migrate the outside rails made db and will be work

[Rails] Re: rails scaffolding issue

2010-09-07 Thread Frederick Cheung
he old code was extracted into a plugin (don't know if it's still maintained): http://github.com/rails/scaffolding Fred -- 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

[Rails] Re: rails scaffolding issue

2010-09-07 Thread JuKuen
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[Rails] rails scaffolding issue

2010-09-07 Thread JuKuen
Greetings friends, i`m experiencing an issue with scaffolding, which i`m unable to resolve for the moment. system used: win7 x64: ruby -v 1.9.1, gem -v 1.3.7, rails -v 2.3.8. mysql 5.1.50, but downgraded to 5.0.37 win xp x86: ruby -v 1.9.2, gem -v 1.3.7, rails - 3. mysql 5.1.50, but downgraded to

Re: [Rails] Scaffolding working...kinda

2010-08-13 Thread Will Merrell
Scott Le gendre wrote: Hello all. I've been working through some online tutorials, learning ROR and have a question on scaffolding. Through the command promt i've ran the command: $ script/generate scaffold Albums [snip] So, the question is, why isnt it filling out the code I had expected? I h

Re: [Rails] Scaffolding working...kinda

2010-08-12 Thread Colin Law
On 12 August 2010 18:56, Scott Le gendre wrote: > Hello all. I've been working through some online tutorials, learning ROR > and have a question on scaffolding. Through the command promt i've ran > the command: > > $ script/generate scaffold Albums > > This created the controllers, helpers, models

Re: [Rails] Scaffolding working...kinda

2010-08-12 Thread Dave Aronson
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 13:56, Scott Le gendre wrote: > The problem is that the scaffold command did not create what I had > expected it to create within my views. It only created partial code. Did you have a name column in your model? -Dave -- Specialization is for insects. -RAH  | Have Pun,

[Rails] Scaffolding working...kinda

2010-08-12 Thread Scott Le gendre
Hello all. I've been working through some online tutorials, learning ROR and have a question on scaffolding. Through the command promt i've ran the command: $ script/generate scaffold Albums This created the controllers, helpers, models, and views. I have a database table titled "albums" and have

[Rails] Scaffolding

2010-07-01 Thread Hemant Bhargava
Hello All, I am using scaffolding but i can not figure out that how to write my own methods except CRUD. I mean i know how to use CRUD methods but if i write my own method in my controller and call that from views then the request is going to show method. Ok.. the scenario is that have an method

[Rails] Scaffolding for nested models

2010-03-08 Thread Ahmed Abdelsalam
Hi, I'm developing application that contains many nested models. Can I use scaffolding command to generate the application nested models instead of manually creating the complex nested models? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to t

[Rails] Scaffolding oddities -- any ideas?

2010-03-08 Thread RichardOnRails
Hi All, I’ve got a couple of problems and solutions I’ll try unless I get guidance for more Rails-like approaches. Details follow. Thanks is advance, Richard I. Problems and possible solutions: The user CRUD works fine except: 1) When user data is supplied and Create is clicked, the “suc

[Rails] Re: How to describe a decimal field in Rails scaffolding

2010-02-20 Thread loganathan
I had tried to my best. Since there were no option to specify the additional parameters. It has to be manually specified in the migration file. Revert back me if u find any solution to it. On Feb 20, 4:57 pm, nfv wrote: > Hi, > > Can anyone explain how to use decimals in Rails sc

[Rails] Re: How to describe a decimal field in Rails scaffolding

2010-02-20 Thread Loganathan Ganesan
nfv wrote: > Hi, > > Can anyone explain how to use decimals in Rails scaffolding ? > > When I enter the scaffold command : > > ruby script/generate scaffold payment amount:decimal, :precision => > 10, :scale => 2 event:string datum:date > > nothing happens.

[Rails] How to describe a decimal field in Rails scaffolding

2010-02-20 Thread nfv
Hi, Can anyone explain how to use decimals in Rails scaffolding ? When I enter the scaffold command : ruby script/generate scaffold payment amount:decimal, :precision => 10, :scale => 2 event:string datum:date nothing happens. No error message, no generating of files, nothing. When I

[Rails] Scaffolding w/ existing DB Tables

2009-08-10 Thread Tom Chen
I am sure many people have asked this already... But I could not find anything helpful. I am trying to use RoR with an existing database with tables already defined. I used script/generate scaffold account But when I point to localhost:3000/account, no table columns showed up. The "new account"

[Rails] Scaffolding in a sub-directory on Rails 2.x

2009-08-07 Thread chrisnzi
Hi, I'm trying to make an app using rails 2.x, but when I try to generate scaffold it messes up with several errors. For example, I want to make an scaffold this way, localhost:3000/admin/publisher, but I don't know how I can generate it; I was trying to generate it by ./script/generate scaffold

[Rails] scaffolding

2009-07-04 Thread Rajendra Bayana
hi , i used the folllwing command to scaffold, G:\my\webblog>ruby script/generate scaffold webblog id:integer title:string body :text created_at:datetime after when i migrate with the follwing command rake db:migrate i got the error as (in G:/my/webblog) == 1 CreateWebblogs: migrating ===

[Rails] Scaffolding question

2009-06-05 Thread J. D.
I'm starting to get involved with models in rails and so I need to make sure I understand exactly what I'm trying to do. Let's look at a quick example: One table that I will be creating is a rushing_offense table for football. It has the following columns in the tables: name (string) games (fi

[Rails] Scaffolding Results Format

2009-05-27 Thread Jay Covington
Hi Everyone, I built a scaffold and I'm having trouble getting results properly formatted. (I need to get the data into multiple columns instead of just one big column) I can't get all of my CSS to work properly in scaffold.css, layout/books.rhtml, or the books/index.rhtml.erb Anyways, maybe you

[Rails] Re: The verdict on Rails scaffolding

2008-12-01 Thread Davo
Thanks David - great article - most illuminating... Dave On Dec 1, 5:38 am, "David A. Black" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi -- > > On Sun, 30 Nov 2008, Nellboy wrote: > > > Agreed, nice post there... The only thing i'd add to that, is that as > > a Rails beginner-becoming-intermediate, I actual

[Rails] Re: The verdict on Rails scaffolding

2008-12-01 Thread Pardee, Roy
on Rails scaffolding Hi -- On Sun, 30 Nov 2008, Nellboy wrote: > > Agreed, nice post there... The only thing i'd add to that, is that as > a Rails beginner-becoming-intermediate, I actually really like the > fact that you can get something up relatively quickly and then start >

[Rails] Re: The verdict on Rails scaffolding

2008-11-30 Thread Nellboy
Thanks David... I'm pretty familiar with that stuff already thankfully... but cheers for the info... Right now, i'm coming to grips with what plugins are out there, which ones are the most common/ popular, and how are they best used... I don't want to be relying on plugins too much, but then again

[Rails] Re: The verdict on Rails scaffolding

2008-11-30 Thread David A. Black
Hi -- On Sun, 30 Nov 2008, Nellboy wrote: > > Agreed, nice post there... The only thing i'd add to that, is that as > a Rails beginner-becoming-intermediate, I actually really like the > fact that you can get something up relatively quickly and then start > hacking away at it to create an app...

[Rails] Re: The verdict on Rails scaffolding

2008-11-30 Thread Nellboy
Agreed, nice post there... The only thing i'd add to that, is that as a Rails beginner-becoming-intermediate, I actually really like the fact that you can get something up relatively quickly and then start hacking away at it to create an app... I'd also add that unless you really understand what's

[Rails] Re: The verdict on Rails scaffolding

2008-11-30 Thread David A. Black
Hi -- On Tue, 25 Nov 2008, Ralph Wood wrote: > > For every tutorial that uses scaffolding, there's an article that says > you shouldn't use it in real websites. Supposedly it just serves to > "sketch things out quickly", "test database connectivity" and other > stuff. Some say you're not even su

[Rails] Re: The verdict on Rails scaffolding

2008-11-30 Thread Brian Hogan
Ralph: It works fine. I just stole the generation code from Rails 1.2.3 but it works fine in Rails 2.x - I have a few things I might want to change as it goes forward, but I keep my stuff in pretty good shape - if it's deprecated I'll push a final release that says so in the readme :) I'm always

[Rails] Re: The verdict on Rails scaffolding

2008-11-30 Thread Brian Hogan
Meh, I'll teach you RSpec if you want, but I''m a bigger fan of test::unit. Find me on IRC - hoganbp On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 10:06 AM, Bobnation <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Nov 30, 9:18 am, Robert Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> One thing I discovered about scaffolding, even as a s

[Rails] Re: The verdict on Rails scaffolding

2008-11-30 Thread Bobnation
On Nov 30, 9:18 am, Robert Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One thing I discovered about scaffolding, even as a starting point, is > that if you every want to use nested resources modifying the scaffolding > to fit what is needed is more work, and adds more risk, than just > building what you n

[Rails] Re: The verdict on Rails scaffolding

2008-11-30 Thread Robert Walker
One thing I discovered about scaffolding, even as a starting point, is that if you every want to use nested resources modifying the scaffolding to fit what is needed is more work, and adds more risk, than just building what you need from scratch. Plus as mentioned you're more likely to write b

[Rails] Re: The verdict on Rails scaffolding

2008-11-29 Thread Ralph Wood
That's a good point, Brian. And your form scaffold is a great idea; even rails' form helpers don't really take the pain out of building forms, but to think that I could bypass all of that with a simple command is mindblowing. One thing, though: Rails is now 2.2, so that you extracted it from R

[Rails] Re: The verdict on Rails scaffolding

2008-11-26 Thread Brian Hogan
First, like everything, scaffolding is a tool, a means to an end. It can be useful, but can also be misused. I can't speak for everyone, but I hate scaffolding because it keeps people from writing tests. Scaffolding generates test stubs, but it leaves the controller tests virtually useless. Wit

[Rails] Re: The verdict on Rails scaffolding

2008-11-26 Thread Bobnation
> So, the bottom line is that there's nothing fundamentally inept about > it, and it's all up to how you actually use it, right? I would personally agree with that. Your mileage will ALWAYS vary depending on the weather conditions, type of fuel used, people in the car, and cargo inside but ... wa

[Rails] Re: The verdict on Rails scaffolding

2008-11-26 Thread Bill Walton
anding is better. I'd capitalize MAY. Other believe that Rails' scaffolding is a very good way for beginners to begin to become familiar with the Rails way of structuring code and tests, of getting working code to begin to become familiar with topics like routing, etc. IMHO, scaffolding

[Rails] Re: The verdict on Rails scaffolding

2008-11-26 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> So, the bottom line is that there's nothing fundamentally inept about > it, and it's all up to how you actually use it, right? > -- > Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/. With the caveat that Rails beginners may be better off avoiding it until their understanding is better. --~--~-~--

[Rails] Re: The verdict on Rails scaffolding

2008-11-26 Thread Ralph Wood
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Scaffolding adds things you may or may not want. It's an easy starting > point. Sometimes I use it when I need a very simple crud interface. > BUT I never use much of the generated views and I'm careful to delete > the bits I don't want and change the rest. It also saves

[Rails] Re: The verdict on Rails scaffolding

2008-11-25 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Scaffolding adds things you may or may not want. It's an easy starting point. Sometimes I use it when I need a very simple crud interface. BUT I never use much of the generated views and I'm careful to delete the bits I don't want and change the rest. It also saves a tiny amount of effort to gener

[Rails] Re: The verdict on Rails scaffolding

2008-11-25 Thread Ar Chron
Feh... pay no mind to the nay-sayers... I scaffold for proof of concept all the time, then adjust the pieces and parts to fit the "real" application after I'm sure that's what the users were asking for (i.e., after they get to tinker with it in my dev environment). -- Posted via http://www.ru

[Rails] The verdict on Rails scaffolding

2008-11-25 Thread Ralph Wood
For every tutorial that uses scaffolding, there's an article that says you shouldn't use it in real websites. Supposedly it just serves to "sketch things out quickly", "test database connectivity" and other stuff. Some say you're not even supposed to use it and then edit it later. I don't get why.

[Rails] Re: Is Rails Scaffolding Production Ready

2008-11-12 Thread Chas Lemley
Thank you, that's what I was looking for. On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 10:53 PM, Ar Chron <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > When one of my users asks for a new "feature" that involves a new model > and all the trimmings, I routinely scaffold up the prototype, do as > little code as I can to make it fit

[Rails] Re: Is Rails Scaffolding Production Ready

2008-11-11 Thread Bobnation
On Nov 11, 9:53 pm, Ar Chron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When one of my users asks for a new "feature" that involves a new model > and all the trimmings, I routinely scaffold up the prototype, do as > little code as I can to make it fit in with the application, then bring > them in for a test dri

[Rails] Re: Is Rails Scaffolding Production Ready

2008-11-11 Thread Ar Chron
When one of my users asks for a new "feature" that involves a new model and all the trimmings, I routinely scaffold up the prototype, do as little code as I can to make it fit in with the application, then bring them in for a test drive on my dev machine. The scaffolded layouts don't match the

[Rails] Re: Is Rails Scaffolding Production Ready

2008-11-11 Thread Bobnation
I'm not the best person to answer this, but I would caution you to "be careful" nonetheless. Sometimes it is better to put in the work in order to understand exactly how things are pieced together. Just my thoughts. On Nov 11, 11:44 am, "Chas Lemley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is scaffolding i

[Rails] Is Rails Scaffolding Production Ready

2008-11-11 Thread Chas Lemley
Is scaffolding in Rails production ready? I've read a few opinions on this, but most were referring to the original style of scaffolding found in rails. Because scaffolding now creates the controller, models, views for me is there anything I need to watch out for when trying to build upon this to

[Rails] Scaffolding and dealing with generated actions in the controllers

2008-10-28 Thread command0
Hey Everyone, I wanted to know if I could get some insight on something. I am using Rails 2.1.2 and for something that needs beyond basic functionality, I typically generate a scaffold so I don't have to manually create everything and save some time. Well as you all most likely know, along with g