I’ve generated the standard scaffolding half a dozen times on play
databases on my own machine, but now I’m trying it for real against the
team’s development database (postgres) and I see to have ended up in
some sort of read-only mode. “list” will show my existing records and
“show” will drill down, as expected, but “New” or “Edit” just show a
blank screen with a New/Edit button - no empty (or populated) form
fields to fill in.
I really have no idea how that might have happened. I did all the usual
script/generate scaffold emailtemplate thing, created table
emailtemplates in my database with an id field, and so on.
Anybody seen that one before? the only other thing I can think that’s
changed is this is the first time I’m using rails 1.x, previous attempts
were prior to the official 1.0 launch.
Any ideas? What data, specific to my app, does the scaffold generator
even look at? I though the _form file just generically said “Get the
columns in the database and display a field for each of them associated
with the column name”.
Duane wrote:
I’ve generated the standard scaffolding half a dozen times on play
databases on my own machine, but now I’m trying it for real against the
team’s development database (postgres) and I see to have ended up in
some sort of read-only mode. “list” will show my existing records and
“show” will drill down, as expected, but “New” or “Edit” just show a
blank screen with a New/Edit button - no empty (or populated) form
fields to fill in.
I really have no idea how that might have happened. I did all the usual
script/generate scaffold emailtemplate thing, created table
emailtemplates in my database with an id field, and so on.
Anybody seen that one before? the only other thing I can think that’s
changed is this is the first time I’m using rails 1.x, previous attempts
were prior to the official 1.0 launch.
As folks may know, the scaffold generator does not play nicely with
set_table_name now, if you’re using it. Even if you plan to use a table
of an unexpected name, which you can do, it will still look for
emailtemplates or whatever during generation time. The solution is easy
just create an empty table with the expected name.
Nope, and that’s my problem. The _form was looking at that empty table,
and of course seeing nothing. Funny, too, since “list” executes at
runtime and properly responds to set_table_name, so it would see the
columns that exist in the desired table, but _form was empty because it
had nothing to iterate over.
Solution - you need a properly named and properly setup table to exist
before running the scaffold generator.
Duane wrote:
I see that my app/view/email/_form.rhtml file contains only this:
<%= error_messages_for ‘emailtemplate’ %>
which is probably a big part of the problem. But the scaffold command
did not give any hint of a problem:
Any ideas? What data, specific to my app, does the scaffold generator
even look at? I though the _form file just generically said “Get the
columns in the database and display a field for each of them associated
with the column name”.
Duane wrote:
I’ve generated the standard scaffolding half a dozen times on play
databases on my own machine, but now I’m trying it for real against the
team’s development database (postgres) and I see to have ended up in
some sort of read-only mode. “list” will show my existing records and
“show” will drill down, as expected, but “New” or “Edit” just show a
blank screen with a New/Edit button - no empty (or populated) form
fields to fill in.
I really have no idea how that might have happened. I did all the usual
script/generate scaffold emailtemplate thing, created table
emailtemplates in my database with an id field, and so on.
Anybody seen that one before? the only other thing I can think that’s
changed is this is the first time I’m using rails 1.x, previous attempts
were prior to the official 1.0 launch.
Duane
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