# Current convention to generate a website?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/current-convention-to-generate-a-website/146573>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [August 22, 2008, 2:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/current-convention-to-generate-a-website/146573 "2008-08-22T14:47:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![xchaotic](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/x/f6c823/32.png) [@xchaotic](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/xchaotic)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2008, 2:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/current-convention-to-generate-a-website/146573/1 "2008-08-22T14:47:56Z")

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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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**Author:** ![xchaotic](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/x/f6c823/32.png) [@xchaotic](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/xchaotic)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2008, 4:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/current-convention-to-generate-a-website/146573/2 "2008-08-22T16:50:34Z")

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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