Mr Mapes wrote:
> Ryan Bigg wrote:
>> New way is to specify the fields.
>>
>> script/generate scaffold person first_name:string last_name:string
>>
>
> I'm considering Ruby on Rails, but I already have a big database schema,
> and I'd rather not re-type firstname:string lastname:string, for the
> dozens of fields in my dozens of tables. Is there some way for Ruby to
> build the scaffold based on what it finds in the existing database?
> Wasn't that the whole point in previous versions? This seems like a big
> step backwards....
I'm a little late to the party here.
Try this from script/console
>> TableClass.columns.each { |c| puts c.inspect }; nil
You'll see a list of all the columns in the table, along with the data
types and names and so forth. It should be a pleasurable afternoon to
write a script that consumes this and generates a "script/generate
scaffold" command.
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