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1 Topic by base2aau 2009-08-02 23:07:41

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Topic: question about scaffolds - Are there set scaffolds?

Hi

Hi I am a new ROR user and I love it.

I can not believe how far OOP has come since I was using Delphi 5.

I have question about scaffolds?

Are there set scaffolds?

Last night I was doing a tutorial that created a scaffold user, at first I thought the when I go:

script/generate scaffold user ...........

It greates a scafold called "user" because I called it user then it just created what ever boxes etc I asked it to make.

But then I noticed that it created a form called "users" not "user" so then I was wondering if I was infact calling a template made by someone else that contained a form called "users"

Are there a set numer of templates scaffolds or do I greate the scaffold from scratch when I generate it?

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Re: question about scaffolds - Are there set scaffolds?

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3 Reply by BasicMind 2009-08-03 09:19:53

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Re: question about scaffolds - Are there set scaffolds?

base2aau wrote:

But then I noticed that it created a form called "users" not "user" so then I was wondering if I was infact calling a template made by someone else that contained a form called "users"

no it tries its best to pluralize things for you. the general thinking is that a model should be singular and a controller should be plural, there are a few gotchas to this like 'sheep' and so on, but for the most part it works. it will even put 'ies' on the end of most things that need it.

but tbh I think once most people get to grips with rails they stop using scaffolds.

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