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by Frederick Cheung-2 :: Rate this Message:

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On 25 Feb 2008, at 13:38, paron wrote:

> So, anyone who questions the elimination of the old-school scaffolding
> is assumed to be a newbie trying to avoid learning the framework.
>
> Enterprise developers, who don't have the luxury of designing from the
> ground up, are just a tiny minority in the Rails world. I'm afraid
> that decisions like this one will be the pattern for some time to
> come. If they had made the "introspecting scaffolding" a plug-in, I
> might have thought the needs of enterprise developers were at least
> considered, but they completely eliminated it so it dies without a
> whimper. Maybe the framework will be strong enough to find use in the
> enterprise anyway, and maybe not.

It was made into a plugin : http://dev.rubyonrails.org/browser/plugins/scaffolding
There are also much nicer looking alternatives such as activescaffold

Fred

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