# Is Rails Scaffolding Production Ready

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-rails-scaffolding-production-ready/153061>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [November 11, 2008, 6:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-rails-scaffolding-production-ready/153061 "2008-11-11T18:45:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![Chas\_Lemley](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@Chas\_Lemley](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Chas_Lemley)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 6:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-rails-scaffolding-production-ready/153061/1 "2008-11-11T18:45:22Z")

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Is scaffolding in Rails production ready? I’ve read a few opinions on  
this,  
but most were referring to the original style of scaffolding found in  
rails.

Because scaffolding now creates the controller, models, views for me is  
there anything I need to watch out for when trying to build upon this to  
arrive at a production-ready product?

Thanks for the help.

Chas

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**Author:** ![Chas\_Lemley](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@Chas\_Lemley](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Chas_Lemley)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 7:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-rails-scaffolding-production-ready/153061/2 "2008-11-11T19:07:09Z")

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I’m not the best person to answer this, but I would caution you to “be  
careful” nonetheless. Sometimes it is better to put in the work in  
order to understand exactly how things are pieced together.

Just my thoughts.

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**Author:** ![Chas\_Lemley](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@Chas\_Lemley](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Chas_Lemley)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2008, 4:53am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-rails-scaffolding-production-ready/153061/3 "2008-11-12T04:53:40Z")

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When one of my users asks for a new “feature” that involves a new model  
and all the trimmings, I routinely scaffold up the prototype, do as  
little code as I can to make it fit in with the application, then bring  
them in for a test drive on my dev machine.

The scaffolded layouts don’t match the app, and there’s no styling, but  
it assures that I interpreted their concept correctly.

Then it’s time to perform surgery on all the scaffolded code and meld  
the new bits into the production application.

Sooo, I wouldn’t say that raw scaffolded code is production ready, but  
it is certainly a fast track for prototyping.

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**Author:** ![Chas\_Lemley](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@Chas\_Lemley](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Chas_Lemley)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2008, 5:00am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-rails-scaffolding-production-ready/153061/4 "2008-11-12T05:00:06Z")

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On Nov 11, 9:53 pm, Ar Chron [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> Sooo, I wouldn’t say that raw scaffolded code is production ready, but  
> it is certainly a fast track for prototyping.
> 
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> Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.

That’s actually a fantastic way of looking at it.

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**Author:** ![Chas\_Lemley](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@Chas\_Lemley](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Chas_Lemley)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 2:08am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-rails-scaffolding-production-ready/153061/5 "2008-11-13T02:08:10Z")

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Thank you, that’s what I was looking for.

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 10:53 PM, Ar Chron  
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