Current convention to generate a website?

Rails
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Hi.

I went through a few tutorials, made rails running on mac, windows,
linux, apache and lighttpd etc.
Now I’d like to start some real project, a web page, with news,
articles and ads sections.

It also needs to have a login, so that only authorized users can add,
edit or delete those items.

Now I noticed that generating that through scaffold seems to be
depreciated, so what’s the good design approach to do it, considering
that those three areas (news, ads, articles) can share a lot
functionality?

I’d also like to integrate sth like tinyMCE on the frontend, have a
header and a footer and that’s it really.

How do I go about it to follow the Rails conventions?

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Scaffolds are great way to start things rolling, but in general, you
end up touching every file generated, that is why some people are not
so fond of them.

If i were you, id scaffold the articles, maybe news and ads can be
subclasses of article? maybe Single Table Inheritance (STI) can save
you some code writting.

also, use restful-authentication for your login (make sure you follow
instructions in readme)

create a layout, if youre feeliing really cheeky, try haml (i just
cant go back to rhtml now…)

and you should be done.

scaffolds are great tool, but they are not perfect out-of-the-box

j