# Please help me! Error generate scaffold **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [February 2, 2008, 3:58am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/please-help-me-error-generate-scaffold/127883 "2008-02-02T03:58:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![sumo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@sumo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sumo)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2008, 3:58am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/please-help-me-error-generate-scaffold/127883/1 "2008-02-02T03:58:07Z")
I’m learning about Ruby on Rails. Please help me. Althougth I do step-by-step with books(config data, generate model, add data field in db/migrate/file.rb) but i can’t generate with scaffold or error. When run command: ruby script\generate scaffold Employee And check: [http://127.0.0.1:3000/employees/](http://127.0.0.1:3000/employees/) → it shows successful with show,edit,destroy however it can’t show data field although i inserted data in mysql. It shows: --------------------------------------------- Listing employees ``` Show Edit Destroy Show Edit Destroy New employee ---------------------------------------- ``` Or if i click on: New employee, it doesn’t have textbox to input data. It shows: --------------------------------- New employee ``` Back ---------------------------------- ``` About your application’s environment: Ruby version 1.8.6 (i386-mswin32) RubyGems version 0.9.4 Rails version 2.0.2 Active Record version 2.0.2 Action Pack version 2.0.2 Active Resource version 2.0.2 Action Mailer version 2.0.2 Active Support version 2.0.2 Application root C:/Aptana Studio/company Environment development Database adapter mysql Database schema version 1 ---
**Author:** ![sumo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@sumo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sumo)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2008, 7:29am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/please-help-me-error-generate-scaffold/127883/2 "2008-02-02T07:29:25Z")
If you are able to generate scaffold that means you have Sccaffold installed over your project…i am not sure but the issue might me when you have generated sccafolding the table might have different structure and after generation of scaffolding you might have altered the table structure… have a look at the generated code to confirm it…or else try once more with the table structure alreadt defiened before generating scaffolding… On Feb 2, 9:19 am, Ratnavel S. \ **Author:** ![sumo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@sumo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sumo)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2008, 5:19am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/please-help-me-error-generate-scaffold/127883/3 "2008-02-02T05:19:35Z") For your information Scaffold is been removed out of core rails in rails 2.0… Scaffold is available as a plugin now… U can get “Active scaffold” from “[http://activescaffold.com/](http://activescaffold.com/)” and u can install it by navigating to the project path in command prompt and by typing “ruby script/plugin install [http://activescaffold.googlecode.com/svn/tags/active\_scaffold](http://activescaffold.googlecode.com/svn/tags/active_scaffold)” ---
**Author:** ![sumo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@sumo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sumo)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2008, 9:11am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/please-help-me-error-generate-scaffold/127883/4 "2008-02-03T09:11:20Z")
Thanks everybody. Especially thank Melvin R., I have done successfully. Scaffold is different in Rails 2.0. ---
**Author:** ![sumo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@sumo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sumo)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2008, 9:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/please-help-me-error-generate-scaffold/127883/5 "2008-02-02T09:07:53Z")
Scaffold is different in Rails 2.0. When you ran your ‘script/generate scaffold employee’ code, it generated the files necessary but since you did not specify the data fields upfront, it did not add them to your code. Here is the way you would do it: ‘script/generate scaffold employee first\_name:string last\_name:string title:string description:text birthday:date’ If you want to add the data fields afterwards, open up the index.rhtml or index.html.erb file inside the /app/views/employees/ folder and insde the form, add: \<%= employee.name %\> \<%= employee.otherfield %\> I highly recommend that you save yourself a lot of confusion and wasted time by going to [www.PeepCode.com](http://www.PeepCode.com) and purchasing their Rails from Scratch Series. It will cost you $18 ($9 per each hour n half video x 2 videos) but it will give you a strong foundation to build from. After going through those two videos, go to [www.RailsCasts.com](http://www.RailsCasts.com) and watch his videos. ---
**Author:** ![sumo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@sumo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sumo)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2008, 5:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/please-help-me-error-generate-scaffold/127883/6 "2008-10-31T17:52:45Z")
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