Paulo J. Matos wrote: > I am learning rails by going through 3rd ed of the Rails book. > In page 153, after creating the user scaffold it says: > "Since this modified config/routes.rb, which is cached for performance > reasons, you will need to start the server." > > This is confusing me, what changed config/routes.rb? The creation of the > scaffold? > But this is confusion because we have created several scaffolds before > for orders, line_items, etc and this was never told to us before. Why > now?
These are two disjoint topics. Firstly, a "scaffold generator" typically edits a few files. Use your version controller to see what it did to routes.rb. (And if you don't have a version controller, such as git or svn, install it _now_!) Secondly, when you change a Model, Controller, or View, Rails knows to reload the source when you go to the browser and refresh (usually F5). However, Rails naturally can't extend this benefit to _all_ source. Otherwise it could end up reloading all of Ruby's standard library and everything! So routes.rb is one of the files you must bounce the server if you edit. Next, despite scaffolds will take you a long way, you must soon stop using them, and start writing features directly. Learn that, with unit tests, and you will be reading to roll with Rails! -- Phlip --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
