Development Blog: Viget Labs

Ben Scofield, Technology Director, March 02, 2010 5

Scaffolding in Rails has always been a little controversial. Originally, it was responsible for a lot of Rails’s wow factor – DHH’s blog in fifteen minutes was built on scaffolding. Over time, however, it became less clear whether it was supposed to be used for production code, or if it was intended to educate new Rails developers on best practices.

After a few discussions through various channels, the core team eventually settled on the latter – scaffolding was supposed to be educational, illustrating the best practices around RESTful controllers and other Rails conventions. Even with that goal, however, there’s still been some difficulty around updating the scaffolded views to teach people how best to, for instance, split files into partials.

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Ben Scofield, Technology Director, February 25, 2010 2

Still with me after the last batch of ported generators? Well, I’ve got something new for you this time – and by new, I mean unseen by Rails 2.3.5-looking eyes. That’s right, it’s time to take a look at the generators that make their first appearance in Rails 3!

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Ben Scofield, Technology Director, February 24, 2010 0

After the first two installments of the Rails 3 generator tour, you may be asking yourself, “Hey, what about session_migration? Or performance_test? I use that one all the time!” Well, wait no longer! Here are four more of the generators that have been held over from Rails 2.

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Tony Pitale, Web Developer, February 22, 2010 2

Garb is now at 0.7.0! We've added many new features to make accessing Google Analytics even easier. Recently added features include: OAuth support, multiple user sessions, reporting extensions on profiles, and a library of basic classes to get new users running quickly (only three lines of code!). Read on to see how to take advantage of these new features.

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Ben Scofield, Technology Director, February 19, 2010 1

OK, we’ve seen how the most common generators have changed (some more than others) in Rails 3. Let’s look at a few more that’ve been around for a while, but haven’t been used quite as much.

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