[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Scaffolding adds things you may or may not want. It's an easy starting > point. Sometimes I use it when I need a very simple crud interface. > BUT I never use much of the generated views and I'm careful to delete > the bits I don't want and change the rest. It also saves a tiny amount > of effort to generate the scaffold and do a quick add to my > repository. Nothing gets forgotten that way. > > I've noticed that a lot of beginners seem to get in trouble with > scaffolding. They don't necessarily know what all the pieces generated > are or how they fit together, so they don't know what needs changed or > what needs deleted. So they end up with effects they don't understand. > For beginners I would recommend coding from the ground up by hand > until they reach the level where they KNOW what the scaffold will > produce and how closely it resembles what they really want.
So, the bottom line is that there's nothing fundamentally inept about it, and it's all up to how you actually use it, right? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
