Hi David, One approach:
1. Grab Ryan Bates' nifty-generators gem - http://github.com/ryanb/nifty-generators. 2. run rake db:schema:dump to grab your database info and add it to schema.rb 3. Create or generate models for each your tables (skip migrations) 3. Run ./script/generate nifty_scaffold for each model (don't provide any fields, it will auto-generate) James On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 9:42 AM, David <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all! This is one of those "I'm asking for a friend" type things. No > really, I'm asking for a friend! > > So he has this 'legacy' mySQL database and wants to build a new > version of the site in Rails. > > His desire is to get Rails to build scaffolds for him based on his > database's schema. Without having to sit there and type out every > table and every column in the script/generate scaffold command. > > Naturally I laughed at him for a while. I've got no experience of > dealing with legacy databases but told him that Rails wasn't really > built for that. > > Any suggestions? > > Thanks > David > > -- > SD Ruby mailing list > [email protected] > http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby > -- SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby
