Newbie Issue

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I am a newbie to RoR. I am struggling to find out why my first RoR program does not show me the labels and the fields for my table.

This is what I did so far:

1. Installed RoR 1.8.6. 2. Installed NetBeans 6.8 3. Installed MySQL 5.5 4. Created my first project called "company" 5. Generated a model "employee" 6. Edited the employees.rb file to include 3 new columns: :name, :string; :hiredate, :date; :salary, :float 7. Executed the migrate rake task which successfully created the table employee on the mysql database with these fields. 8. Generated a scaffold called "employee".

Then I opened my browser and went to http://localhost:8080/employees/new

Here is where my troubles begin. The webpage shows just a "Create" button, without the labels and text fields for the fields name, hiredate or salary. If I click on the "Create" button, it says "created a new employee" and creates a row with links "show", "edit" and "destroy". It does not show the name, hiredate or salary. When I checked the database, there is an empty row in the employees table. When I click on the Edit button, it says "successfully updated" but still does not show the fields.

What am I missing?

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I am a newbie to RoR. I am struggling to find out why my first RoR program does not show me the labels and the fields for my table.

This is what I did so far:

1. Installed RoR 1.8.6.

I suspect you mean ruby 1.8.6 and some other version of rails (since there is no version 1.8.6)

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If I click on the "Create" button, it says "created a new employee" and creates a row with links "show", "edit" and "destroy". It does not show the name, hiredate or salary. When I checked the database, there is an empty row in the employees table. When I click on the Edit button, it says "successfully updated" but still does not show the fields.

What am I missing?

Scaffolding does not inspect your database - it will show controls/ labels for those attributes that you tell it about when you run the scaffolding generator

Fred

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Have a look at the GettingStarted guide at http://guides.rubyonrails.org/

Colin