Agree that scaffolding in 2.x is unnecessarily hobbled. FWIW--here's what I wound up doing:
http://helloimbloggingatyounow.blogspot.com/2008/03/i-am-leet-rails-haxor.html or if that breaks: http://is.gd/4IRI It's worked reasonably well for me. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of RichardOnRails Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 4:57 PM To: Ruby on Rails: Talk Subject: [Rails] Re: Problem running back-to-back migrations > Scaffolding is really only a learning tool or a way to jump start ... Understood. Still, in development mode, it would be nice to have the Rails 1.x functionality still working. But I'll grudgingly accept the judgment of the Rails Masters :-) > http://activescaffold.com/ That's very helpful Because it looks like a good basis for writing a Ruby DB-updating app to complement the Rails app. I'm also looking into "ActiveRecord with ar-extensions" (http:// www.igvita.com/2007/07/11/efficient-updates-data-import-in-rails/) But all this is grist for a new thread some other day. Best wishes, Richard On Oct 23, 1:44 pm, DyingToLearn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > RichardOnRails wrote: > > IMHO, listing all those fields on a scaffold command is an ugly > > approach, when compared to the second fixture that listed all the > > fields. Is there an easier way? > > Scaffolding is really only a learning tool or a way to jump start > development. It gets you going quickly with some decent patterns, but > you expected to customize them heavily. That is why the new fields > don't get added automatically. > > But you might be interested in checking out:http://activescaffold.com/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
