RichardOnRails wrote: > Hi paving, > > Thanks very much for your response to my complaint about lack of Rails > support for handling changes. > > Bottom line: I think you've shown that the approach I wished Rail's > offered is, in fact, at hand. I'll try it today!! > >> What you keep talking about wanting to do is impractical for an >> automatic procedure. > > I accept your assessment about impracticality of automated updating of > scaffolding in the general case. > > However, I'm focused on apps in early stages of development after > scaffolding and migration. After making changes to a table in the > database, complementary changes in the Rails implementation are > limited to four files in app\views. They have a straight-forward > pattern that are susceptible to analysis by one or two regexp's per > views That lets me present an abstract layout that I can modify and > supplement with new code. That can be feed to a generator for each of > the views.
Why not try ActiveScaffold, as I suggested in an earlier post? Best, -- Marnen Laibow-Koser http://www.marnen.org [email protected] -- 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.

