http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaffolding
On Feb 20, 3:44 pm, "anselm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Would be nice from the doc team should to clarify if scaffold is or not OK > > for production... > > That's not really up to them to tell you -- because this is a process > problem, not a technical problem. If your scaffolded forms do what you > need, then, technically, you can use them in your product.The problem > with scaffolding is that as soon as you want to change any little > thing, you end up having to re-write the whole form. > > I've been hurt before (not with Cake) : > > Write the app with some scaffolding. You're late (as usual), the > deadline is looking at you with big menacing eyes, and the scaffolded > forms do the job -- so you leave them in, ship the product with > scaffolded forms, and forget about it. Half a year later the client > asks you to change those forms a little bit - and there you're stuck, > because you have to do the forms completely by hand. > > Now you can either explain to the client that you didn't do the job > properly the first time round, and that her little insignificant > changes will cost some money and you can't do them straight away ; or > you do the work without telling the client anything, do those forms > (that you should have done the first time round) with the added > complication of having to fit this extra, unpaid work in your current > schedule (which will invariably delay your current project, pushing > you to cut corners again...) > > Shipping a product with scafolded forms is just asking for trouble > later ! Scaffolding is good for prototyping but I'd advise against > using it in your actual product, because it doesn't remove work, it > delays it. And keeping extra work for the end of a project is a sure > way to miss deadlines. > > Anselm --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cake PHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
