Alternate CSS for scaffold?

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Does anyone have an alternate CSS for the default scaffold that makes it look decent? Would you be willing to share it? Eventually I'll create my own scaffold generator but in the mean time, I'd like to be able to demo Rails to folks without the forms looking so 1994.

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heh... now that I'm trying to do it myself I realize I was asking the impossible. Let me change my question: Has anyone created an updated scaffold generator (designed to be actually used as a generator, as opposed to ActiveScaffold and its ilk) with more CSS-friendly output?

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Hi Mark,

Mark Thomas wrote:

Has anyone created an updated scaffold generator (designed to be actually used as a generator, as opposed to ActiveScaffold and its ilk) with more CSS-friendly output?

Have you seen Richard White's Ajax Scaffold Generator? It's at http://rubyforge.org/projects/ajaxscaffold/. There's a short review / tutorial at Agen Judi Zeus Slot Online Gampang Maxwin Paling Gacor Pakai RTP. I haven't used it yet but it looks very interesting.

hth, Bill

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Yes, AjaxScaffold is being replaced by ActiveScaffold. I've used it and it's great as a drop-in admin console. But it's not meant to be used as a generator--it's big and complicated, not easy to go in and modify.

I was really looking for something in the spirit of this: http://www.tonyspencer.com/2007/03/01/custom-scaffolding-for-rails/ except more CSS-friendly with a nice CSS stylesheet.

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If you want to use the haml plugin, there are a couple of generators at: http://groups.google.com/group/haml/files one, ‘haml_dry_scaffold’ has CSS imported from Ed Moss’s DryScaffold. -Larry

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the templates used by the scaffold generator are located here:

rails-1.2.2/lib/rails_generator/generators/components/scaffold/templates

you could just modify the rhtml and css files. one layout, 6 (very small) views and 1 css. you could probably whip something up in short order.

don't forget to backup the originals :slight_smile:

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Yes, this is my backup plan. I was hoping someone would have done this already and made it available to others. I'm surprised nobody seems to have done this.

- Mark.