On 3/9/06, Sean Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3/9/06 3:56 PM, "Rob Kinyon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 3/8/06, John Siracusa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Do many people use the helpers and scaffolding? I always imagined that > >> people might use those to play with, but then write stuff form scratch when > >> creating their first real app. > > > > Having done some Rails work, you do really use the scaffolding. The > > big thing is the sane defaults. If you don't need to do anything the > > defaults can't do, then 90% of your code is literally 'written' for > > you. Which is nice. Generated code tends to be less buggy. > > By scaffolding (in Rails), do you mean that the code is generated and > realized as a file for later editing, or is code generated dynamically at > runtime? One of the problems that I had--quite practically, not > conceptually--with scaffolding with CDBI and the loader concept (if that is > what is meant by scaffolding) was that when a bug or an unexpected behavior > happened, I didn't know how to track it down (but I am not in the same > league as those of you discussing stuff here). I simply like the > transparency of code in hand.
I meant the code that's generated for you that you then edit (if need be). Rob ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid0944&bid$1720&dat1642 _______________________________________________ Rose-db-object mailing list Rose-db-object@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rose-db-object
