Well Talk, Several weeks later I''m still here! I think I owe this list an apology for freaking out and a thanks for helping me through this. Some of the highlights since my last post here are: 1) I''ve now got a fully functional Rails instance up and running with ~ 20 tables and 10 pages with superb AJAX-ified and CSS-stylized CRUD interface (thanks to *active scaffold*! And for Paron above for pointing me towards it!) 2) I got apache proxying my Mongrel server (thanks Fredrick) so that now everything is nice and daemonized and I still get to use Apache at the same time! 3) I bought "The Rails Way" and found it quite useful (thanks again Paron and Shashank!) for the very little of it that I read while getting side tracked down the cappastrano path (we are a really small shop and I''m only making an internal db interface for now) 4) I even got to take part in a beginning Rails book review process for a major computer book publisher! (a nice side-benefit of being the squeaky wheel / master complainer). 5) AND! I did it all without really even trying to learn any Ruby.. Someday I will... I still have "Beginning Ruby" sitting on my shelf. HOWEVER: I still haven''t figured out how to create all the forms from an existing schema but that''s not as much of an issue now. And I still think that scaffolding could be super useful and that someone (perhaps me someday) could re-write it so it uses the foreign key fields to infer the HM, BT, & HABTM relationships... If i did this, I would probably write it to build pages for active scaffold... anybody want to work on this with me? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---