This is an opinionated feature idea, so please bear with me :) Rails provides scaffold generators; for instance rails g scaffold user name age:integer active:boolean creates models, controllers and (importantly) HTML views that are very valuable for newbies to experience the power of Rails and to have *"something"* up and running in the browser with one command:
My feature idea is: can we make these views *look a little nicer*? Functionally, they include all the business logic needed. Visually, they look unstyled, unresponsive and old. Therefore, 99% of the times, newbies cannot actually *use* these views unless they edit the related HTML. If you can go back with your mind to the first time you used Rails, I'm sure you remember the awe at typing one command and being able to see working HTML pages in your browser. If we made those views nicer, the awe would be 10 times as much! One way to achieve this goal would be to simply change the existing scaffold.css.scss <https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/master/railties/lib/rails/generators/rails/scaffold/templates/scaffold.css> to have better styles. However… why reinvent the wheel when we can achieve something nice using Bootstrap CSS? What I suggest is that scaffolded views can simply point to the CDN-hosted Bootstrap CSS <http://www.bootstrapcdn.com/> and then have a simple HTML structure that makes for better and responsive views (e.g., adding a <div class="container">). This would not affect existing Rails apps, or any code edited by programmers. It would simply replace the existing scaffolded view with a different one, still giving freedom to expert users to change it. Pointing to the CDN Bootstrap CSS would avoid adding an extra dependency to the code. In the end, it would greatly benefit newbies and not have a negative impact on anything else. That's my… opinion! What do you think? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-core@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
