Scaffold_controller generator

Rails
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Hi:

I’m new to RoR and I apologize if this is a dumb question but I’ve
read the guides, searched the archives and found nothing.

If I generate a model object and then the scaffold_controller the
result is different than just running the scaffold generator (the
_form partial has no fields in the first case).
I did not expected this and I wanted to first create the models, tweak
them and then generate the scaffolds.

Did I made a mistake somewhere or is this by design?

Ruby 1.9.2
Rails 3.0.7

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Without a model (and it’s underlying database) the scaffold generator
has no idea what fields to create in the form. Or put another way -
your form contains exactly what is in the database.

You will soon grow out of scaffolds.

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On Monday, June 13, 2011 6:36:10 PM UTC-6, madth3 wrote:

them and then generate the scaffolds.

Did I made a mistake somewhere or is this by design?

Ruby 1.9.2
Rails 3.0.7

You didn’t make any mistake.

It’s just that the scaffold_controller generator is perhaps not as smart
as
you’d like it to be. It doesn’t parse your migrations (or look at the
current state of the database) in order to determine what attributes
might
exist on the associated model. As such, when creating your view
templates,
it can’t build-out any references to any specific fields.

However, the regular scaffold generator has the benefit of knowing the
fields on the associated model because you provide them on the command
line
as “field:type” pairs:

$ rails g scaffold MyModel name:string age:int […]

If you really want your scaffolded view templates to include all your
fields
in them, then I suggest simply using the regular scaffold generator
after
having considered your data model enough to have a good, initial idea of
what fields you want.

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Ok, that makes sense.
I was fooled by the console messages saying that the “generate scaffold”
command invokes the scaffold_controller generator

More than the fields themselves, I was hoping I could adjust the
restrictions in the model before generating the controllers and views.

Thanks!