Thanks so much. I wish there was some kind of protection against creating scaffolds with reserved words. It's frustrating.
Anyway, thank you for the help! On Jun 25, 4:26 am, Colin Law <[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/6/24 John Woods <[email protected]>: > > > > > Hi all, > > > I accidentally generated a scaffold called reference, not realizing > >referenceswas apparently a reserved word in MySQL. I thought I could > > get away with it, since the scaffold itself seemed to be working, but > > now I'm getting an error that suggests Rails doesn't like this > > scaffold name. > > > I'd like to rename it to ref. Is it as simple as a search-replace, or > > will I encounter other problems? What's the easiest solution? > > It should be as simple as changing all uses of the text 'reference' to > 'ref' and 'Reference' to 'Ref' plus renaming the files and folders. > That is assuming you have not used the text 'reference' anywhere else > of course. I would advise committing to your source control system > first and then if it is a disaster for some unforeseen reason you can > just revert. > > Colin --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
