Rails - Jul 2006 - How do I overwrite/extend a scaffold module?

I have many pages to generate quickly.  They are based off of the scaffold
generator, but I want to convert the rhtml files to Markaby, and change some
formatting.  Without having to do a lot of repetitive hand editing. Is there
a simple way to overwrite/extend part of the scaffold generator?  Do I need
to write my own from scratch?

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-Larry
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Larry Kelly wrote:
> I have many pages to generate quickly.  They are based off of the 
> scaffold
> generator, but I want to convert the rhtml files to Markaby, and change 
> some
> formatting.  Without having to do a lot of repetitive hand editing. Is 
> there
> a simple way to overwrite/extend part of the scaffold generator?  Do I 
> need
> to write my own from scratch?
I''m not quite sure about what you need here and not sure what Markaby
is
but if it''s on a linux box and all you need is to rename the files 
(don''t know if you can change the contents of the file) from .rhtml to 
.mab, a Linux command on renaming is:

mv *.rhtml *.mab

And all of your files will be get renamed to the following extension.

hope that was helpful

Bing

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Thanks for the reply.  What I was trying to say was that I needed to
re-write parts of the default scaffold generated code.  For instance, adding
css class names to the labels on the forms.  Converting the default
_form.rhtml to  a more CSS friendly fieldset layout.  Overwrite was a bad
choice of words. I think the OO term is ''overloading''. Where
you change the
behavior of a method by creating a new one with the same name.
-Larry

On 7/19/06, Bing Tan <sombreroisland@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> Larry Kelly wrote:
> > I have many pages to generate quickly.  They are based off of the
> > scaffold
> > generator, but I want to convert the rhtml files to Markaby, and
change
> > some
> > formatting.  Without having to do a lot of repetitive hand editing. Is
> > there
> > a simple way to overwrite/extend part of the scaffold generator?  Do I
> > need
> > to write my own from scratch?
>
> I''m not quite sure about what you need here and not sure what
Markaby is
> but if it''s on a linux box and all you need is to rename the files
> (don''t know if you can change the contents of the file) from
.rhtml to
> .mab, a Linux command on renaming is:
>
> mv *.rhtml *.mab
>
> And all of your files will be get renamed to the following extension.
>
> hope that was helpful
>
> Bing
>
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Larry Kelly wrote:
> Thanks for the reply.  What I was trying to say was that I needed to
> re-write parts of the default scaffold generated code.  For instance, 
> adding
> css class names to the labels on the forms.  Converting the default
> _form.rhtml to  a more CSS friendly fieldset layout.  Overwrite was a 
> bad
> choice of words. I think the OO term is ''overloading''.
Where you change
> the
> behavior of a method by creating a new one with the same name.
> -Larry
I think that''s a real good question, because in the default rendering
are alway things missing ... and sometime real basic stuff. I tried out
ruby-on-rails and wondered that the date an time formats are shown nice
with lists, but enumeration an sets not. A enumeration in mysql should
generate radio-button or a list, a set check-boxes for example and not a
plain input field.

For me is the question ...
1) where can submit some kind of feature requests and
2) how could I overload (=adding features, not rewrite all by myself)
the default scaffolding.

Chris.

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Is it possible to override the scaffold  output for the
''_form.rhtml''
file?

if not,  should I be looking at creatin a generator or a plugin to  build my
own custom replacement?
-Larry

On 7/19/06, Chris <titusx@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> Larry Kelly wrote:
> > Thanks for the reply.  What I was trying to say was that I needed to
> > re-write parts of the default scaffold generated code.  For instance,
> > adding
> > css class names to the labels on the forms.  Converting the default
> > _form.rhtml to  a more CSS friendly fieldset layout.  Overwrite was a
> > bad
> > choice of words. I think the OO term is
''overloading''. Where you change
> > the
> > behavior of a method by creating a new one with the same name.
> > -Larry
>
> I think that''s a real good question, because in the default
rendering
> are alway things missing ... and sometime real basic stuff. I tried out
> ruby-on-rails and wondered that the date an time formats are shown nice
> with lists, but enumeration an sets not. A enumeration in mysql should
> generate radio-button or a list, a set check-boxes for example and not a
> plain input field.
>
> For me is the question ...
> 1) where can submit some kind of feature requests and
> 2) how could I overload (=adding features, not rewrite all by myself)
> the default scaffolding.
>
> Chris.
>
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-Larry
"Work, work, work...there is no satisfactory alternative."
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