Why Rails scaffold doesn’t work

The need to write a replacement of the Rails scaffold was because the build in one in Ruby on Rails:

• Does not support namespaces on the controllers and the models it generates funny paths in the views and/or controllers
• The native way to extend the Rails scaffold was changed frequently I have to spend hours tracing github issues
• It uses the ugly scaffold.css and it generates it all the time breaking my styles
• Does some freaky copy/paste optimizations in the controller to get the model. Scaffold should be a starting point from where with few deletes or add few lines of codes to make a usable screen.

The new approach

With scaffold_pico you can create your own pretty administration in a second.

• No learning curve – if you know Rails you know it.
• No 3rd party gems slowing your development/production startup times.
• Clean code
• Supports namespaces in the models and the controllers

There is also some sugar. With the pico_scaffold you can generate from the beginning fabricators and take care of N+1 by specifying joins/includes clauses. There is separation of the fields for index and editing. There is a search – almost every screen now days has search.

Supports Zurb Foundation, Materializecss CSS frameworks

Here is the github: https://github.com/gudata/scaffold_pico