scaffold not working like i hoped......

[SpudNerd]

Hi:

i've tried this on three macs (tiger, panther, etc).. and my ROR is up
to date on each.


My models and controllers aren't displaying all my mysql db fields.

When I run script/generate scaffold Planner ... it builds the
controller, model, and all the rest.

When I go to test the app and new controller, now called planners no
content is listed... and all I ever get is the submit button, and
'SHOW', 'EDIT' links. I get none of the form to work with, just the
form button.

I noticed that the Views for the controller planners has all
*.html.erb extensions.... .i changed them to .rhtml extensions, but
nothing changes.

Nothing is visible.... tested in FF, safari....

Any suggestions?

Spud

[Frederick Cheung]

On Nov 8, 7:18 pm, SpudNerd <nerdc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi:
>
> i've tried this on three macs (tiger, panther, etc).. and my ROR is up
> to date on each.
>
> My models and controllers aren't displaying all my mysql db fields.
>

That's just the way scaffolding is. I think the old pre 2.x
scaffolding is available as a plugin somewhere.

Fred

[Chris Ripley]

the more i'm reading here... it looks like scaffold is not built in.... even though going the generate does create the views, just not a complete CRUD.  I don't really care about the CRUD.. just the rapid generation of views.

Spud

[Rick]

Did you run rake db:migrate?

Rick

[Chris Ripley]

Yes.. i've run rake db:migrate. 

[Pardee, Roy]

Scaffolding is still built-in, but it won't look for existing tables when it builds the views.  You've got to list out all your column_name:column_type pairs on the call to script/generate. 

 

It's a bummer, but there it is...

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Subject: [Rails] Re: scaffold not working like i hoped......

[Mark Thomas]

Try Ryan Bates' nifty_generators gem.

I haven't tried it yet (on my todo list) but supposedly it can
generate controller and views by looking at the attributes of an
existing model. See http://github.com/ryanb/nifty-generators/tree/master/rails_generators/nifty_scaffold/USAGE

-- Mark.

[Chris Ripley]

Yes... cool.  I did a little digging and found out 'how' to do it now.  Truthfully, I like the old way for rapid CRUD of existing data (for internal apps and those not necessarily for primetime); but noobs can't always get what they want -- usually something easy.

I'm definitely a noob.

But thanks all for the good advice.

Spud

[Brian Hogan]

If you

gem install scaffold_form_generator

you'll get the part that makes new and edit forms. I extracted this from Rails 1.x and made it work for  current Rails cos while I hate scaffolding, I hate making forms by hand even more.

Docs are at http://scaffoldform.rubyforge.org/