# Alternate CSS for scaffold? **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [March 21, 2007, 6:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/alternate-css-for-scaffold/89631 "2007-03-21T18:06:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![markthomas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/90db22/32.png) [@markthomas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/markthomas)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 6:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/alternate-css-for-scaffold/89631/1 "2007-03-21T18:06:59Z")
Does anyone have an alternate CSS for the default scaffold that makes it look decent? Would you be willing to share it? Eventually I’ll create my own scaffold generator but in the mean time, I’d like to be able to demo Rails to folks without the forms looking so 1994. ---
**Author:** ![markthomas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/90db22/32.png) [@markthomas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/markthomas)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2007, 2:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/alternate-css-for-scaffold/89631/2 "2007-03-22T14:33:30Z")
heh… now that I’m trying to do it myself I realize I was asking the impossible. Let me change my question: Has anyone created an updated scaffold generator (designed to be actually used as a generator, as opposed to ActiveScaffold and its ilk) with more CSS-friendly output? ---
**Author:** ![markthomas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/90db22/32.png) [@markthomas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/markthomas)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2007, 2:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/alternate-css-for-scaffold/89631/3 "2007-03-22T14:45:32Z")
Hi Mark, Mark T. wrote: > Has anyone created an updated scaffold generator > (designed to be actually used as a generator, as > opposed to ActiveScaffold and its ilk) with more > CSS-friendly output? Have you seen Richard W.'s Ajax Scaffold Generator? It’s at [http://rubyforge.org/projects/ajaxscaffold/](http://rubyforge.org/projects/ajaxscaffold/). There’s a short review / tutorial at [The rise of no-code platforms | AppMaster](http://www.height1percent.com/articles/2006/02/21/on-the-new-ajax-scaffold-generator). I haven’t used it yet but it looks very interesting. hth, Bill ---
**Author:** ![markthomas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/90db22/32.png) [@markthomas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/markthomas)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2007, 3:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/alternate-css-for-scaffold/89631/4 "2007-03-22T15:36:47Z")
On Mar 22, 9:44 am, “Bill W.” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Hi Mark, > > Mark T. wrote: > > > Has anyone created an updated scaffold generator > > (designed to be actually used as a generator, as > > opposed to ActiveScaffold and its ilk) with more > > CSS-friendly output? > > Have you seen Richard W.'s Ajax Scaffold Generator? Yes, AjaxScaffold is being replaced by ActiveScaffold. I’ve used it and it’s great as a drop-in admin console. But it’s not meant to be used as a generator–it’s big and complicated, not easy to go in and modify. I was really looking for something in the spirit of this: [http://www.tonyspencer.com/2007/03/01/custom-scaffolding-for-rails/](http://www.tonyspencer.com/2007/03/01/custom-scaffolding-for-rails/) except more CSS-friendly with a nice CSS stylesheet. ---
**Author:** ![markthomas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/90db22/32.png) [@markthomas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/markthomas)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2007, 7:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/alternate-css-for-scaffold/89631/5 "2007-03-22T19:15:43Z")
the templates used by the scaffold generator are located here: rails-1.2.2/lib/rails\_generator/generators/components/scaffold/templates you could just modify the rhtml and css files. one layout, 6 (very small) views and 1 css. you could probably whip something up in short order. don’t forget to backup the originals 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![markthomas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/90db22/32.png) [@markthomas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/markthomas)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2007, 6:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/alternate-css-for-scaffold/89631/6 "2007-03-22T18:46:35Z")
If you want to use the haml plugin, there are a couple of generators at: [http://groups.google.com/group/haml/files](http://groups.google.com/group/haml/files) one, ‘haml\_dry\_scaffold’ has CSS imported from Ed Moss’s DryScaffold. -Larry On 3/22/07, Mark T. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > > opposed to ActiveScaffold and its ilk) with more > > > [Custom Scaffold for Rails](http://www.tonyspencer.com/2007/03/01/custom-scaffolding-for-rails/) > > > except more CSS-friendly with a nice CSS stylesheet. > > > – Best Regards, -Larry “Work, work, work…there is no satisfactory alternative.” — E.Taft Benson ---
**Author:** ![markthomas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/90db22/32.png) [@markthomas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/markthomas)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2007, 2:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/alternate-css-for-scaffold/89631/7 "2007-03-26T02:07:32Z")
On Mar 22, 2:14 pm, “Chris H.” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > the templates used by the scaffold generator are located here: > > rails-1.2.2/lib/rails\_generator/generators/components/scaffold/templates > > you could just modify the rhtml and css files. one layout, 6 (very > small) views and 1 css. you could probably whip something up in short > order. Yes, this is my backup plan. I was hoping someone would have done this already and made it available to others. I’m surprised nobody seems to have done this. - Mark.