# Scaffold with Foreign Key fields possible?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/scaffold-with-foreign-key-fields-possible/97424>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [July 7, 2006, 12:38am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/scaffold-with-foreign-key-fields-possible/97424 "2006-07-07T00:38:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![blewis](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/c57346/32.png) [@blewis](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/blewis)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2006, 12:38am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/scaffold-with-foreign-key-fields-possible/97424/1 "2006-07-07T00:38:31Z")

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When you do a scaffold, is there a fast way to force it to let you enter  
in data for any foreign/primary key fields?

Thanks,  
Ben L.

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**Author:** ![blewis](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/c57346/32.png) [@blewis](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/blewis)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2006, 12:44am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/scaffold-with-foreign-key-fields-possible/97424/2 "2006-07-07T00:44:16Z")

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Hi,  
Sorry, but scaffolding isn’t meant to do that much, it is just a simple  
scaffolding. You will have to modify the scaffolding or write your own  
code to get that functionality.

Chris

Ben L. wrote:

> When you do a scaffold, is there a fast way to force it to let you enter  
> in data for any foreign/primary key fields?
> 
> Thanks,  
> Ben L.

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**Author:** ![blewis](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/c57346/32.png) [@blewis](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/blewis)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2006, 12:50am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/scaffold-with-foreign-key-fields-possible/97424/3 "2006-07-07T00:50:25Z")

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Chris C. wrote:

> Hi,  
> Sorry, but scaffolding isn’t meant to do that much, it is just a simple  
> scaffolding. You will have to modify the scaffolding or write your own  
> code to get that functionality.
> 
> Chris
> 
> Ben L. wrote:
> 
> > When you do a scaffold, is there a fast way to force it to let you enter  
> > in data for any foreign/primary key fields?
> > 
> > Thanks,  
> > Ben L.

or get the scaffolding extension plugin  
[http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/Scaffolding+Extensions+Plugin](http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/Scaffolding+Extensions+Plugin)