after scaffolding no data is shown

rubyonrails-talk
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hello,

i'm a newbie . . . after a few installation problems finally i got ruby and the rails running.

however, i did the scaffolding on a sample database (i created 2 records) and on the main page i see 2 edit and 2 delete links. which means to me that the model is connected to the database .. . .

i clicked on the "new" link and created another record with a title and a little text. it created a new record but didn't save the data to the DB just got a new id.

i'm running a debian 4 with xampp and apache2 ...

thank you for your help...

iM

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Well your problem sounds weird. Usually a id is assigned only when the record is saved to the database. However please report the rails version you are using. Rails 2.0 is not supporting scaffold anymore.

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Check out the AWDwR screencast series at http://www.rubyplus.org/ , I cover the topic of using scaffold in Rails 2.0

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Also a newbie so please tell me if I have a bad assumption. You used a generator for scaffolding right? Rails 2 has a bit different syntax and if a part of it is that you explicitly have to say what columns you want used in the scaffold (name_of_column:sql_type) . Example, you have a table named pets with columns name, age, place_of_birth ... You generate a scaffold with script/generate scaffold Pet name:text age:integer ... Hope this helped

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well,

if I type: "ruby -v" I got this back: ruby 1.8.5 (2006-08-25) [i486-linux]

so i guess this is not 2.0 :frowning: what I did under debian:

"apt-get install ruby rdoc1.8 irb libyaml-ruby libzlib-ruby"

i downloaded the gems and ... : "gem1.8 install rubygems"

and the rails: "gem1.8 install rails"

something was going on and I had to install openssl ... everything seemed fine so I looked up some tutorials and tried one of the examples .... that's all

i am an old time PHP guy :wink: so i knew something is very weird when I could insert a new record but only the ID got saved ...

thanks for your advices .... i'll check 'em out!

--iM

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i am sooo stupidos sorry... my RAILS version is: Rails 2.0.2 :frowning: as I said. i'm a newbie :smiley:

--iM

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thank you,

it did help ... that was an old tutorial.

--iM