On Jan 28, 8:41 am, keymaster <[email protected]> wrote: > Although I have been developing with cake for some time (generally > loving every minute), I have never understood the rationale for cake’s > bake utility duplicating so many nearly identical copies of every > action and every view all across your system, in a seemingly total > contradiction of DRY principles. > > Why would you want basically the same code duplicated all across your > app? > > Wouldn’t it be smarter for bake to create a single instance of generic > crud ops in the AppController, with a single admin_index.ctp > configurable for cols, labels, models, error msgs, fields, etc. and > if there is nothing configured, it defaults to what it can learn from > the database?
you're describing scaffolding, which is great right up until you want to modify it. > > The generic actions/views could always be overrided in specific > controllers. > > Anyone have a clue why bake works this way? so you can edi the files. AD -- Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials http://tv.cakephp.org Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://ask.cakephp.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php
