# Major Scaffolding Extensions Release

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/major-scaffolding-extensions-release/128838>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [February 12, 2008, 1:40am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/major-scaffolding-extensions-release/128838 "2008-02-12T01:40:57Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 1:40am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/major-scaffolding-extensions-release/128838/1 "2008-02-12T01:40:57Z")

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This is just a heads up to Scaffolding Extensions plugin users that the  
latest revision (r90, which I just released) breaks backwards  
compatibility, so you’ll want to read the doc/conversion.txt file in the  
plugin before upgrading. Changes will be fairly easy unless you were a  
heavy user that depended on the previous internals of the plugin.

The plugin has been around since before Rails 1.0 (parts of the code  
were around before the plugin system was introduced), and changes have  
been pretty much backwards compatible since, so I don’t break backwards  
compatibility without a good reason. In this case, keeping it would do  
more harm than good to the plugin, as I refactored most of it to be able  
support other frameworks (it now supports Ramaze) and ORMs, as well as  
give much more control over the data displayed on the scaffolded forms.

If you aren’t familiar with the plugin, here’s info from the README:

Scaffolding Extensions provides a powerful and simple to use  
administrative interface to perform common actions on models. It has  
the following features:

- Creates pages for browsing, creating, deleting, displaying, updating,  
searching, and merging records
- Choose which fields are displayed in the scaffolds and in which order
- Handles associated records for common one-to-many, many-to-one, and  
many-to-many associations.
- Extensive support for modifying the display and working of the plugin
- Advanced features such as access control, autocompleting, and eager  
loading

Scaffolding Extensions is not a code generator, and isn’t really  
scaffolding at all, as you are not expected to modify the output.  
Instead, you use configuration options inside the model to control the  
display of the pages. The scaffolding analogy is misleading,  
Scaffolding Extensions is not really scaffolding–it is a completely  
functional structure that you can easily modify to better suit your  
needs.

Feel free to contact me at removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid if you have any  
questions about Scaffolding Extensions.

Thanks,  
Jeremy