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Michael Williams
8,074 PointsRails apps w/o scaffold.
Hey guys,
I was wandering if anyone had any advice on how to build Rails apps without a scaffold? The Ruby tutorials are great and have been a lot of help but no real Rails developer uses scaffolds all the time right? I feel like a Rails developer who uses scaffolds is like an adult who has been riding a bike all their life and still uses training wheels.
I'm already using the Rails Documentation and wanted to know what else is good?
3 Answers
Neil Northrop
5,095 PointsDo you mean like this?
rails generate model Hamburger
or this:
rails generate controller Hamburger
Those two commands are the equivalent of your single Rails generate scaffold command.
Michael Williams
8,074 PointsYeah, I'm already using the "Getting Started" guide and it is giving me a majority of what I need. I like the easy set up and quickness of a scaffold but wanted to know more about what's under the hood.
Thanks for the tips!
Neil Northrop
5,095 PointsHey Michael, some of the best reading I've done is in the terminal using the command's help docs.
If you type:
rails generate
or:
rails generate model
or:
rails generate controller
You'll get some examples. Hope that helps some more.
Aryan Sharma
91 PointsAryan Sharma
91 PointsCould you please have a tutorial on creating a Rails app without scaffold?
Sean Gaffney
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 2,560 PointsSean Gaffney
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 2,560 PointsMichael Williams, Neil is right here. I use generators constantly. You're right that scaffolds are nice training wheels, but it's nice to know your way around the generators and what they do for you. This "Getting Started" guide will get you the basics for working with generators.