Scaffolding w/ existing DB Tables

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I am sure many people have asked this already... But I could not find anything helpful. I am trying to use RoR with an existing database with tables already defined.

I used script/generate scaffold account

But when I point to localhost:3000/account, no table columns showed up. The "new account" link is there, but no columns nor any content (and I have content in my db table). When I click on new account, only the create button showed up. When I click on the create button, a new entry gets added to my existing db table, with all fields blank!

What's up with this? It's obviously able to talk to the DB, but what did I do wrong that caused RoR to not able to figure out what fields already exist?

My table was named account, but ActiveScaffold insists on using accounts as the table name, so I added set_table_name "account" to my Model class.

I appreciate any help.

Thank you, Rat

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With scaffolding you can specify the list of fields and its data type. Try again this way...

ruby script/generate scaffold Account field1:datatype field2:datatype

let me know if it works.

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Rat King wrote:

I am sure many people have asked this already... But I could not find anything helpful. I am trying to use RoR with an existing database with tables already defined.

I used script/generate scaffold account

But when I point to localhost:3000/account, no table columns showed up. The "new account" link is there, but no columns nor any content (and I have content in my db table). When I click on new account, only the create button showed up. When I click on the create button, a new entry gets added to my existing db table, with all fields blank!

What's up with this? It's obviously able to talk to the DB, but what did I do wrong that caused RoR to not able to figure out what fields already exist?

My table was named account, but ActiveScaffold insists on using accounts as the table name, so I added set_table_name "account" to my Model class.

I appreciate any help.

Thank you, Rat

In model there is Account (A capital letter) u have change in schema and migrate folder bd/ ..