Scaffold (form) for single record

Rails
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I am looking for a sort of scaffolding (because the schema of the
individual table whose individual record I do not know until runtime)
for putting into a div to be displayed in say, redbox. Does anyone
have anything along the lines for that they might recommend? Thanks,
RVince

2

Hey RVince

Creating tables at runtime sounds really messy - have you considered
other options?

For example, using serialize in your models and storing attributes as
a hash:

class Product

serialize :attributes

end

@product = Product.new :name => “Canon Ixus”, :category =>
“Camera”, :attributes => { :price => $150, :battery_life => “8
hours”, … etc… }

Maybe this ‘virtual class’ approach isn’t best for your app but
perhaps there are other, similar approaches?

Gavin

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attributes would likely screw up ActiveRecord though, that was silly
of me. Perhaps another name like “virtual_attributes” would be better.