Rails - Jan 2006 - How did I end up with read-only access?

I''ve generated the standard scaffolding half a dozen times on play 
databases on my own machine, but now I''m trying it for real against the
team''s development database (postgres) and I see to have ended up in 
some sort of read-only mode.  "list" will show my existing records and
"show" will drill down, as expected, but "New" or
"Edit" just show a
blank screen with a New/Edit button - no empty (or populated) form 
fields to fill in.

I really have no idea how that might have happened.  I did all the usual 
script/generate scaffold emailtemplate thing, created table 
emailtemplates in my database with an id field, and so on.

Anybody seen that one before?  the only other thing I can think that''s 
changed is this is the first time I''m using rails 1.x, previous
attempts
were prior to the official 1.0 launch.

Duane

-- 
Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I see that my app/view/email/_form.rhtml file contains only this:

<%= error_messages_for ''emailtemplate'' %>

<!--[form:emailtemplate]-->
<!--[eoform:emailtemplate]-->


which is probably a big part of the problem.  But the scaffold command 
did not give any hint of a problem:

[root@trump admin]# script/generate scaffold emailtemplate Email
      exists  app/controllers/
      exists  app/helpers/
      exists  app/views/email
      exists  test/functional/
  dependency  model
      exists    app/models/
      exists    test/unit/
      exists    test/fixtures/
        skip    app/models/emailtemplate.rb
   identical    test/unit/emailtemplate_test.rb
   identical    test/fixtures/emailtemplates.yml
      create  app/views/email/_form.rhtml
      create  app/views/email/list.rhtml
      create  app/views/email/show.rhtml
      create  app/views/email/new.rhtml
      create  app/views/email/edit.rhtml
      create  app/controllers/email_controller.rb
      create  test/functional/email_controller_test.rb
      create  app/helpers/email_helper.rb
      create  app/views/layouts/email.rhtml
   identical  public/stylesheets/scaffold.css


Any ideas?  What data, specific to my app, does the scaffold generator 
even look at?  I though the _form file just generically said "Get the 
columns in the database and display a field for each of them associated 
with the column name".

Duane wrote:
> I''ve generated the standard scaffolding half a dozen times on play
> databases on my own machine, but now I''m trying it for real
against the
> team''s development database (postgres) and I see to have ended up
in
> some sort of read-only mode.  "list" will show my existing
records and
> "show" will drill down, as expected, but "New" or
"Edit" just show a
> blank screen with a New/Edit button - no empty (or populated) form 
> fields to fill in.
> 
> I really have no idea how that might have happened.  I did all the usual 
> script/generate scaffold emailtemplate thing, created table 
> emailtemplates in my database with an id field, and so on.
> 
> Anybody seen that one before?  the only other thing I can think
that''s
> changed is this is the first time I''m using rails 1.x, previous
attempts
> were prior to the official 1.0 launch.
> 
> Duane

-- 
Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Found it, and let me just say "ew".

As folks may know, the scaffold generator does not play nicely with 
set_table_name now, if you''re using it.  Even if you plan to use a
table
of an unexpected name, which you can do, it will still look for 
emailtemplates or whatever during generation time.  The solution is easy 
- just create an empty table with the expected name.

Nope, and that''s my problem.  The _form was looking at that empty
table,
and of course seeing nothing.  Funny, too, since "list" executes at 
runtime and properly responds to set_table_name, so it would see the 
columns that exist in the desired table, but _form was empty because it 
had nothing to iterate over.

Solution - you need a properly named and properly setup table to exist 
before running the scaffold generator.

Duane wrote:
> I see that my app/view/email/_form.rhtml file contains only this:
> 
> <%= error_messages_for ''emailtemplate'' %>
> 
> <!--[form:emailtemplate]-->
> <!--[eoform:emailtemplate]-->
> 
> 
> which is probably a big part of the problem.  But the scaffold command 
> did not give any hint of a problem:
> 
> [root@trump admin]# script/generate scaffold emailtemplate Email
>       exists  app/controllers/
>       exists  app/helpers/
>       exists  app/views/email
>       exists  test/functional/
>   dependency  model
>       exists    app/models/
>       exists    test/unit/
>       exists    test/fixtures/
>         skip    app/models/emailtemplate.rb
>    identical    test/unit/emailtemplate_test.rb
>    identical    test/fixtures/emailtemplates.yml
>       create  app/views/email/_form.rhtml
>       create  app/views/email/list.rhtml
>       create  app/views/email/show.rhtml
>       create  app/views/email/new.rhtml
>       create  app/views/email/edit.rhtml
>       create  app/controllers/email_controller.rb
>       create  test/functional/email_controller_test.rb
>       create  app/helpers/email_helper.rb
>       create  app/views/layouts/email.rhtml
>    identical  public/stylesheets/scaffold.css
> 
> 
> Any ideas?  What data, specific to my app, does the scaffold generator 
> even look at?  I though the _form file just generically said "Get the 
> columns in the database and display a field for each of them associated 
> with the column name".
> 
> Duane wrote:
>> I''ve generated the standard scaffolding half a dozen times on
play
>> databases on my own machine, but now I''m trying it for real
against the
>> team''s development database (postgres) and I see to have ended
up in
>> some sort of read-only mode.  "list" will show my existing
records and
>> "show" will drill down, as expected, but "New" or
"Edit" just show a
>> blank screen with a New/Edit button - no empty (or populated) form 
>> fields to fill in.
>> 
>> I really have no idea how that might have happened.  I did all the
usual
>> script/generate scaffold emailtemplate thing, created table 
>> emailtemplates in my database with an id field, and so on.
>> 
>> Anybody seen that one before?  the only other thing I can think
that''s
>> changed is this is the first time I''m using rails 1.x,
previous attempts
>> were prior to the official 1.0 launch.
>> 
>> Duane

-- 
Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.