Arf! and Scaffolding: Not Happening
Posted by Joe Rinehart at 9:10 AM
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Arf!
I've had few people ask me when Arf! will support Rails-style scaffolding. I just don't think it's going to happen. There's a few reasons for this:
1. Would you like your scaffold in FB, Mach-II, Model-Glue, or nothing at all? On top of that, would you like MVC FB, service-layer scaffolding serving all three and the "no framework" methodology? There's simply too many ways to do it, and nothing's going to make everyone happy.
2. If it _did_ generate scaffolds, we'd all just overwrite them with our own custom UI anyways.
3. I'd like to focus on getting the easy CRUD/ORM side of things right, and hey, I'm just this guy, you know?
4. I'd like to look beyond HTML. Flex Builder doesn't give a crap about scaffolding, but having a fast CRUD layer could make building Flex apps much faster, and might help some of the J2EE/PHP Flexers see that CF is a viable platform as well.
If someone wants to do their own scaffolding project, it might be nice to see it done in a way where multiple framework UIs can be created, and in a way where it communicates with a generic service layer supplied by either hand-coded components, Arf!, Reactor, or whatever pops up next.
SOSensible wrote on 11/07/05 11:36 AM
That makes sense Joe. It would be a nice to have feature... but if it had the ability to interface with a scafolding tool that would be enough for me and the other guys who would like to build a implementation oriented solution.Does ARF expose the data structure at this point? That would be needed to create the implementations.