# \[Newbie\] Scaffolding and documentation about scripts

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/newbie-scaffolding-and-documentation-about-scripts/131088>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [March 5, 2008, 10:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/newbie-scaffolding-and-documentation-about-scripts/131088 "2008-03-05T22:35:41Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 10:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/newbie-scaffolding-and-documentation-about-scripts/131088/1 "2008-03-05T22:35:41Z")

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Dear all,

I apologize if the question is silly but I cannot find any hint, so I  
am posting here.

Trying to follow some tutorials about RoR 2.0, I see that when you  
scaffold you can generate model elements by specifying their  
attributes:

generate scaffold post title:string body:text created\_at:datetime

The question is, what are the allowed attribute types? Is there a link  
to a page documenting this and, in general, the “generate” system?

I’ve found plenty of tutorials of speedy coding, blogs in 30 seconds,  
etc. but they all fails to explains the details.  
Good tutorials are for RoR 1.x and don’t work with 2.0. Being a newbie  
I cannot understand the differences.

Thank you for your help.  
LT