# Can't get scaffolding to work

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-get-scaffolding-to-work/146401>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [August 20, 2008, 5:20pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-get-scaffolding-to-work/146401 "2008-08-20T17:20:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![nick1123](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/a5b964/32.png) [@nick1123](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nick1123)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2008, 5:20pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-get-scaffolding-to-work/146401/1 "2008-08-20T17:20:17Z")

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I am running Rails 2.1.0 and Ruby 1.8,6

I ran the following successfully:  
ruby script/generate model User name:text email:text password:text  
is\_admin:int type:int status:int  
rake db:migrate

No I try to run:  
ruby script/generate scaffold User name:text email:text password:text  
is\_admin:int type:int status:int

And I get the following error:  
ruby script/generate scaffold User name:text email:text password:text  
is\_admin:int type:int status:int

Any suggestions here?

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![nick1123](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/a5b964/32.png) [@nick1123](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nick1123)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2008, 5:32pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-get-scaffolding-to-work/146401/2 "2008-08-20T17:32:06Z")

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Sorry copy’n’paste problem.

The real error I get is:  
wrong constant name Name:textController

when I run:  
ruby script/generate scaffold Users name:text email:text password:text  
is\_admin:int type:int status:int

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**Author:** ![nick1123](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/a5b964/32.png) [@nick1123](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nick1123)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2008, 5:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-get-scaffolding-to-work/146401/3 "2008-08-20T17:40:12Z")

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I got it to work.

Had to cut “RAILS\_GEM\_VERSION = ‘1.2.6’ unless defined?  
RAILS\_GEM\_VERSION” out of my environment file.

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**Author:** ![nick1123](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/a5b964/32.png) [@nick1123](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nick1123)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2008, 8:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-get-scaffolding-to-work/146401/4 "2008-08-20T20:21:31Z")

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just a heads-up…  
text is a textarea or a TEXT column in the database, meaning you want  
unlimited values.

Normally you use string instead for things like email, name, etc…  
this  
maps up with the VARCHAR data type in most databases.

On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 10:40 AM, Nicholas Stewart \<