# AjaxScaffold

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ajaxscaffold/87566>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [March 4, 2007, 12:52am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ajaxscaffold/87566 "2007-03-04T00:52:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![akm](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/57b2e6/32.png) [@akm](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/akm)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2007, 12:52am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ajaxscaffold/87566/1 "2007-03-04T00:52:02Z")

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Hi,  
I have just come across this plugin for rails. Is anyone else here using  
it  
in their projects? Any good?

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Regards

Andrew

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**Author:** ![akm](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/57b2e6/32.png) [@akm](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/akm)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2007, 1:04am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ajaxscaffold/87566/2 "2007-03-04T01:04:03Z")

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Andrew M. wrote:

> I have just come across this plugin for rails. Is anyone else here using  
> it  
> in their projects? Any good?

Briefly, without experience with the actual plugin…

…for anything called “scaffold”, try this experience: Whip out a  
sample  
Rails site with two models. Create a scaffold for the first model. Then  
create one for the second model, and see if the first one still works.

Next, are you targetting an Enterprise solution? (Where everyone uses  
the  
exact same Starfleet Web Browser?) If you target the open internet, you  
should not abuse Ajax. Traditional things like forms and pages should  
still  
work, but I suspect AjaxScaffold takes over _everything_. This breaks  
the  
rule that your site should have Pretty and Bookmarkable URIs.

–  
Phlip  
[Redirecting...](http://www.greencheese.us/ZeekLand) ← NOT a blog!!!

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**Author:** ![akm](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/57b2e6/32.png) [@akm](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/akm)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2007, 1:20am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ajaxscaffold/87566/3 "2007-03-04T01:20:04Z")

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On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 11:50:52PM +0000, Andrew M. wrote :

> I have just come across this plugin for rails. Is anyone else here using it  
> in their projects? Any good?

I have used it in the early days of my project. It’s really useful to  
show first drafts of the application to your customers: the CSS kicks  
ass,  
the AJAX too.

Actually, I don’t use it anymore because:  
1/ I thing the code is really messy (I don’t like the way the plugin is  
coded)  
2/ I have so a huge customization to do, that a rewrite was easier.

My $0.02,

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**Author:** ![akm](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/57b2e6/32.png) [@akm](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/akm)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2007, 1:59am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ajaxscaffold/87566/4 "2007-03-04T01:59:07Z")

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Pierre-Alexandre M. wrote:

> I have used it in the early days of my project. It’s really useful to  
> show first drafts of the application to your customers: the CSS kicks ass,  
> the AJAX too.
> 
> Actually, I don’t use it anymore because:  
> 1/ I thing the code is really messy (I don’t like the way the plugin is  
> coded)  
> 2/ I have so a huge customization to do, that a rewrite was easier.

I forgot 3/!

3/ Wizards (aka generators) and TDD often don’t mix, and to  
rewrite and clean up messy code you generally need unit tests!

So if someone could crack the TDD-for-Ajax nut…

–  
Phlip  
[Redirecting...](http://www.greencheese.us/ZeekLand) ← NOT a blog!!!