# Scaffold not working like i hoped **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [November 8, 2008, 8:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/scaffold-not-working-like-i-hoped/152877 "2008-11-08T20:57:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SpudNerd](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/919ad9/32.png) [@SpudNerd](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/SpudNerd)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2008, 8:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/scaffold-not-working-like-i-hoped/152877/1 "2008-11-08T20:57:33Z")
Hi: i’ve tried this on three macs (tiger, panther, etc)… and my ROR is up to date on each. My models and controllers aren’t displaying all my mysql db fields. When I run script/generate scaffold Planner … it builds the controller, model, and all the rest. When I go to test the app and new controller, now called planners no content is listed… and all I ever get is the submit button, and ‘SHOW’, ‘EDIT’ links. I get none of the form to work with, just the form button. I noticed that the Views for the controller planners has all \*.html.erb extensions… .i changed them to .rhtml extensions, but nothing changes. Nothing is visible… tested in FF, safari… Any suggestions? Spud ---
**Author:** ![SpudNerd](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/919ad9/32.png) [@SpudNerd](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/SpudNerd)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2008, 8:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/scaffold-not-working-like-i-hoped/152877/2 "2008-11-08T20:58:09Z")
On Nov 8, 7:18 pm, SpudNerd [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Hi: > > i’ve tried this on three macs (tiger, panther, etc)… and my ROR is up > to date on each. > > My models and controllers aren’t displaying all my mysql db fields. That’s just the way scaffolding is. I think the old pre 2.x scaffolding is available as a plugin somewhere. Fred ---
**Author:** ![SpudNerd](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/919ad9/32.png) [@SpudNerd](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/SpudNerd)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2008, 8:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/scaffold-not-working-like-i-hoped/152877/3 "2008-11-09T20:49:02Z")
Did you run rake db:migrate? Rick ---
**Author:** ![SpudNerd](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/919ad9/32.png) [@SpudNerd](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/SpudNerd)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2008, 10:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/scaffold-not-working-like-i-hoped/152877/4 "2008-11-08T22:28:33Z")
the more i’m reading here… it looks like scaffold is not built in… even though going the generate does create the views, just not a complete CRUD. I don’t really care about the CRUD… just the rapid generation of views. Spud On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 11:57 AM, Frederick C. \< ---
**Author:** ![SpudNerd](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/919ad9/32.png) [@SpudNerd](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/SpudNerd)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2008, 11:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/scaffold-not-working-like-i-hoped/152877/5 "2008-11-09T23:28:49Z")
Yes… i’ve run rake db:migrate. ---
**Author:** ![SpudNerd](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/919ad9/32.png) [@SpudNerd](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/SpudNerd)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 6:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/scaffold-not-working-like-i-hoped/152877/6 "2008-11-10T18:57:23Z")
Scaffolding is still built-in, but it won’t look for existing tables when it builds the views. You’ve got to list out all your column\_name:column\_type pairs on the call to script/generate. It’s a bummer, but there it is… * * * From: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid [[mailto:removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)] On Behalf Of Chris Ripley Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2008 2:28 PM To: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid Subject: [Rails] Re: scaffold not working like i hoped… Yes… i’ve run rake db:migrate. On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 11:48 AM, Rick \ wrote: Did you run rake db:migrate? Rick ---
**Author:** ![SpudNerd](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/919ad9/32.png) [@SpudNerd](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/SpudNerd)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 10:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/scaffold-not-working-like-i-hoped/152877/7 "2008-11-10T22:55:53Z")
Try Ryan B.’ nifty\_generators gem. I haven’t tried it yet (on my todo list) but supposedly it can generate controller and views by looking at the attributes of an existing model. See > – Mark. ---
**Author:** ![SpudNerd](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/919ad9/32.png) [@SpudNerd](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/SpudNerd)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 3:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/scaffold-not-working-like-i-hoped/152877/8 "2008-11-11T15:06:21Z")
If you gem install scaffold\_form\_generator you’ll get the part that makes new and edit forms. I extracted this from Rails 1.x and made it work for current Rails cos while I hate scaffolding, I hate making forms by hand even more. Docs are at [http://scaffoldform.rubyforge.org/](http://scaffoldform.rubyforge.org/) ---
**Author:** ![SpudNerd](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/919ad9/32.png) [@SpudNerd](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/SpudNerd)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2008, 4:31am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/scaffold-not-working-like-i-hoped/152877/9 "2008-11-11T04:31:03Z")
Yes… cool. I did a little digging and found out ‘how’ to do it now. Truthfully, I like the old way for rapid CRUD of existing data (for internal apps and those not necessarily for primetime); but noobs can’t always get what they want – usually something easy. I’m definitely a noob. But thanks all for the good advice. Spud