[Rails] Re: Scaffolding for pre-existing database table in 2.0.1

Just another quick solution. You can generate the Ruby scaffolding commands using SQL out of the database. Just access sys.columns or whatever your particular database provides (INFORMATION_SCHEMA or something). For each column, generate that line that Ruby wants for a column / table entry.

[Rails] Re: Scaffolding for pre-existing database table in 2.0.1

Sebastian wrote in post #599469: > Hi, > > first of all I will apologize in advance for my presumably noobish > question, but I'm only starting to learn Rails and am a little > confused with all the changes in 2.0.1. There are as good as no > tutorials out yet and the 2 or 3 screencasts I've seen d

[Rails] Using scaffolding with Ruby 4.1.0 on existing Db

Thanks in advance for the great responses on this forum. My question is this: Let's say I have a MySQL database with three tables. Referential integrity is set up in the database, so invalid keys will cause a non zero query return code. The tables are: Category which o