Scaffold (form) for single record

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I am looking for a sort of scaffolding (because the schema of the individual table whose individual record I do not know until runtime) for putting into a div to be displayed in say, redbox. Does anyone have anything along the lines for that they might recommend? Thanks, RVince

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Hey RVince

Creating tables at runtime sounds really messy - have you considered other options?

For example, using serialize in your models and storing attributes as a hash:

class Product

  serialize :attributes

end

@product = Product.new :name => "Canon Ixus", :category => "Camera", :attributes => { :price => $150, :battery_life => "8 hours", ... etc... }

Maybe this 'virtual class' approach isn't best for your app but perhaps there are other, similar approaches?

Gavin

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attributes would likely screw up ActiveRecord though, that was silly of me. Perhaps another name like "virtual_attributes" would be better.