HI --
On Sat, 22 Mar 2008, Patrick Doyle wrote:
>
> I am curious why the new scaffold generator doesn''t include a
> parameter for the model. As my friend Google and I have looked
> around, we''ve found all sorts of pages claiming that 2.0 breaks
all
> the old tutorials because of this change (which it does), a lot of
> pages showing how to work around this (which is trivial), but I have
> yet to find an explanation for the rationale behind the change. The
> closest I''ve found is a page that claimed that this is due to the
new
> RESTful routing mechanism and that with a RESTful application, the
> model and the controller have the same name. That confused me even
> more, since my understanding of REST is that the controller is the
> "resource", not the model.
Actually the resource is the resource :-) But you''re right that the
controller is the Rails layer that maps most closely to it. In my
opinion it''s very unfortunate that the term "resource" has
become
almost synonymous in many people''s minds with "controller-model
stack
with a given name". The scaffodling, at the very least, strongly
reinforces this perception.
> Anyway, I''m curious to understand why this change was made, and
> whether there would be any benefit to submitting a patch adding the
> capability to specify the model behind the controller when generating
> a scaffold.
That would be a start. The ability not to generate a model at all
would also be a big step.
David
--
Upcoming Rails training from David A. Black and Ruby Power and Light:
ADVANCING WITH RAILS, April 14-17 2008, New York City
CORE RAILS, June 24-27 2008, London (Skills Matter)
See http://www.rubypal.com for details. Berlin dates coming soon!
--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
"Ruby on Rails: Talk" group.
To post to this group, send email to
rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to
rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org
For more options, visit this group at
http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en
-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---