Newbie problems with scaffolding

[adrian_m]

Hello all,

I've started to write my first Rails application, using rails 2.3.5
and some tutorials found on the net (for example Four Days on
Rails) . I've just discovered that the scaffolding information found
in most (older) tutorials are completely unusable with recent rails
versions .

This is my situation :
- i have a PostgreSQL database with 3 tables (created manually with my
own sql scripts)
- i have used 'ruby script/generate model' , and the generated models
seem to be ok
- now i want to have the basic controller + views generated for each
of the tables

I have used 'ruby script/generator scaffold MyModelName' and it has
indeed generated some files.
But: the views contain no fields/columns !

Please give me some hint/advice so that i can go on : how can I
obtain some complete controller+views for each model (without
specifying them manually as arguments) ?

[Colin Law]

2009/12/18 adrian_m <adrian...@gmail.com>:

Not answering your question directly but if you have not already done
so I would suggest having a look at the rails guides at
http://guides.rubyonrails.org/ particularly Getting Started,
ActiveRecord Associations, and Debugging.The railscasts are also
excellent. Also the free Rails course at
http://www.buildingwebapps.com/podcasts is supposed to be good.

By the time you have worked through that lot I am sure you will answer
your own questions, and probably be back here answering those from
others. :)

Colin

[radu puspana]

Hi dude,

So, to create a model, a controller and layout/views, complety
functional, with basic events CRUD(create read update delete) u open a
terminal, get inside the folder of your app, and write
1)ruby script/generate scaffold ModelName column1:type
column2:type ...columnN:type and hit enter :)
2)rake db:migrate

now to get u started, the proper way:
1) u need to have good undestanding of Ruby code, or at least,
classes, objects, methods.
this type of well grounded info can't be optained from tutorials, i
have been studying computer science for 4 years, but from good
bucks.And in my oppinion a good ruby book is
Manning.The.Well.Grounded.Rubyist.May.2009.
2) a good rails book, which i don't have a proper example right
now.what i have is Agile Web Development with Rails 3rd Ed, but if u
decide to study it, get ready to meet Hell, no joking :)
3) a good reference :raiisguides, from ruby.com, and
http://railsapi.com/doc/rails-v2.3.5/
Don't quite agree with raiscasts, as reference for a noob, not at all.

hope this answer made any difference ,
regards,
radup

[Adrian Maier]

On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 13:53, radu puspana <radup...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi dude,

So, to create a model, a controller and layout/views, complety
functional, with basic events CRUD(create read update delete) u open a
terminal, get inside the folder of your app, and write
1)ruby script/generate scaffold ModelName column1:type
column2:type ...columnN:type and hit enter :)
2)rake db:migrate

The need to specify all the columns  when generating is precisely what
I'm hoping to avoid.

When I find some spare time I'll try this :
- use the new-style   'generate scaffold'   to create a complete example for a table that is not part of my application
- use the 'generate scaffold'   without columns   for my real tables
- the generated controller doesn't seem to access the fileds by name,  so perhaps the generated controller is not affected  by the lack of information about columns
- manually add the fields to the views , using code copy-pasted from the complete example

If this works I'll be able to advance with the application.

 

now to get u started, the proper way:
1) u need to have good undestanding of Ruby code, or at least,
classes, objects, methods.
this type of well grounded info can't be optained from tutorials, i
have been studying computer science for 4 years, but from good
bucks.And in my oppinion a good ruby book is
Manning.The.Well.Grounded.Rubyist.May.2009.

I don't know advanced tricks , but I am familiar with the language.

 

2) a good rails book, which i don't have a proper example right
now.what i have is Agile Web Development with Rails 3rd Ed, but if u
decide to study it, get ready to meet Hell, no joking :)

Is the learning curve really painful with Rails ? 

I am lacking the time to order books and to properly learn rails : i have
the task to build a web application and have the freedom to choose any
language+framework.

My current intention is to give Rails a try . But if the online documentation
resources prove to be not suitable for a beginner (outdated , or disorganized)
it would be a shame to be forced to move to some other solution only
because it  provides a faster startup . 



 

3) a good reference :raiisguides, from rub y.com, and

http://railsapi.com/doc/rails-v2.3.5/
Don't quite agree with raiscasts, as reference for a noob, not at all.

I'm hoping to be able to find some updated good tutorials that are
_not_  videos.  The internet connection that i have at work is totally
unusable for video     :D 

 

Thanks,

Adrian