# After scaffolding no data is shown

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/after-scaffolding-no-data-is-shown/125792>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [January 12, 2008, 2:22am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/after-scaffolding-no-data-is-shown/125792 "2008-01-12T02:22:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![imehesz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@imehesz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/imehesz)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2008, 2:22am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/after-scaffolding-no-data-is-shown/125792/1 "2008-01-12T02:22:35Z")

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hello,

i’m a newbie . . . after a few installation problems finally i got  
ruby and the rails running.

however, i did the scaffolding on a sample database (i created 2  
records) and on the main page i see 2 edit and 2 delete links. which  
means to me that the model is connected to the database … . .

i clicked on the “new” link and created another record with a title  
and a little text. it created a new record but didn’t save the data to  
the DB just got a new id.

i’m running a debian 4 with xampp and apache2 …

thank you for your help…

iM

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**Author:** ![imehesz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@imehesz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/imehesz)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2008, 4:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/after-scaffolding-no-data-is-shown/125792/2 "2008-01-12T04:07:12Z")

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Well your problem sounds weird. Usually a id is assigned only when the  
record is saved to the database. However please report the rails  
version you are using. Rails 2.0 is not supporting scaffold anymore.

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**Author:** ![imehesz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@imehesz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/imehesz)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2008, 12:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/after-scaffolding-no-data-is-shown/125792/3 "2008-01-12T12:19:21Z")

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Check out the AWDwR screencast series at  
[http://www.rubyplus.org/](http://www.rubyplus.org/) , I cover the topic of using scaffold in Rails  
2.0

On Jan 11, 2008 5:20 PM, imehesz [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

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–  
[http://www.rubyplus.org/](http://www.rubyplus.org/)  
Free Ruby and Rails Screencasts

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**Author:** ![imehesz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@imehesz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/imehesz)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2008, 3:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/after-scaffolding-no-data-is-shown/125792/4 "2008-01-12T15:21:05Z")

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Also a newbie so please tell me if I have a bad assumption.  
You used a generator for scaffolding right? Rails 2 has a bit  
different syntax and if a part of it is that you explicitly have to  
say what columns you want used in the scaffold  
(name\_of\_column:sql\_type) . Example, you have a table named pets with  
columns name, age, place\_of\_birth … You generate a scaffold with  
script/generate scaffold Pet name:text age:integer …  
Hope this helped

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**Author:** ![imehesz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@imehesz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/imehesz)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2008, 9:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/after-scaffolding-no-data-is-shown/125792/5 "2008-01-12T21:33:20Z")

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well,

if I type: “ruby -v” I got this back:  
ruby 1.8.5 (2006-08-25) [i486-linux]

so i guess this is not 2.0 ☹ what I did under debian:

“apt-get install ruby rdoc1.8 irb libyaml-ruby libzlib-ruby”

i downloaded the gems and … :  
“gem1.8 install rubygems”

and the rails:  
“gem1.8 install rails”

something was going on and I had to install openssl … everything  
seemed fine so I looked up some tutorials and tried one of the  
examples … that’s all

i am an old time PHP guy 😉 so i knew something is very weird when I  
could insert a new record but only the ID got saved …

thanks for your advices … i’ll check 'em out!

–iM

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**Author:** ![imehesz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@imehesz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/imehesz)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2008, 9:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/after-scaffolding-no-data-is-shown/125792/6 "2008-01-12T21:46:50Z")

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i am sooo stupidos sorry… my RAILS version is:  
Rails 2.0.2 ☹ as I said. i’m a newbie 😃

–iM

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**Author:** ![imehesz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@imehesz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/imehesz)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2008, 3:21am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/after-scaffolding-no-data-is-shown/125792/7 "2008-01-13T03:21:00Z")

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thank you,

it did help … that was an old tutorial.

–iM