Re:Uhm... (Score 1)

Hmm. It sounds like you're not keen on maintaining the generated code and you don't like having code generated for you that you can't maintain. Kind've a no-win scenario really. But then, the answer is that the scaffold & generators in Rails are just shortcuts. They allow you to get a basic CRUD app up and running very, very quickly and yet still give you the opportunity to customize or even competely replace the generated code. After all, there's no reason you HAVE to use generators - you could just write everything by hand if you want to. Oh, and if you're not happy with the generated code and you don't want to keep changing it every time you generate something new, take a look in the \templates directory under each generator and you can always change the code template if you like. Now that's more flexibility than you get in most code-generating IDEs.