When I run the scaffold command on p.167:

ruby script/generate scaffold Item Manage

I get the following:

      exists app/models/
      exists app/controllers/
      exists app/helpers/
      create app/views/items
      exists app/views/layouts/
      exists test/functional/
      exists test/unit/
      create app/views/items/index.html.erb
wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)

Running on OS X Leopard, with Rails 2.0.2. Any ideas?

In Rail 2.0.2,scaffold used like this:
   ruby script/generate scaffold Item field1:type1 field2:type2 ...
controller is named "items" automatically

Sorry, I don't quite understand what you're saying we should change the line to. What are the field:type entries used for?

I'm stuck at the same place that davidtspf is, getting the same error. What should I use for the scaffold line to generate an Item model and a Manage controller?

Did anyone get this working? Thanks!

I used the following to create the controller and the model:

$ ruby script/generate scaffold Item

which seems to work. I have the problem now of not knowing what to use in the browser URL. Typing the following in the browser

http://localhost:3000/items

gives me an error:
 ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid in ItemsController#index
 SQLite3::SQLException: no such table: items: SELECT * FROM items

I'm stuck again.

Found this, which may help.

http://fairleads.blogspot.com/2007/1...p-by-step.html

Go down a bit, to where there is a section header called "Old vs. New". The author there deals with the differences with how such a line should be set up.

It's much like what bimawen said. In order for the scaffold to have the title Manage, something like title:Manage must be used.

So I tried "ruby scrip/generate scaffold Item title:Manage", and it looks to be working so far. See if that will help

Ok, scratch that. It looks like it will need to be "title:string". After that, it's still a mystery to me. Sorry.

Well, finally made it work by getting an older version of rails. Actually an older version of InstantRails is what I'm using, but at least the book example has worked up to where the /manage page has come up.

If you want to know, I'm using InstantRails 1.7.

Here's an update. I am using Rails 2.02, with Linux, which has enough changes to make it significantly different than the book.

As mentioned previously,
   I used the following to create the controller and the model:
     $ ruby script/generate scaffold Item
   which Rails accepted.

I was blocked and made changes to database.yml for mysql, since is defaulted to sqlite3. I then added the partial statement recommended in the book to /view/items/new.html.erb and created the _form.rhtml in views/items.

Next I made the changes suggested for list.rhtml to index.html.erb and now I can add/delete/list store items. I can see these changes in mysql.

I just need to get edit and show working.

This is painful.

Using Rails 2.1 on WinXP
Typed the following
ruby script/generate scaffold Item name:varchar(80) description:text price:decimal(8,2)

It seems to work so far after adding one item. URL has items where book lists manage (http://localhost:3000/items).

Hi,

To get the store (chpt. 6) up and running with Rails 2.x, you need to do the following:

Don't create the sql databases as instructed, instead change to your rubydev directoy (or wherever you are storing your rails projects) and type:
change to the store directory (eg with cd store)

type:
Then edit the config/database.yml file, adding your sql password where appropriate.

Then back to the console and type:
That's it.
You have created a model called "Item", a database table in store_development called "items" and a controller called "ItemController"

You can add records to the database under the url:
http://localhost:3000/items

The rest should be straight forward.
Hope this helps somebody.

P.S. Running Rails 2.x, MySQL version 5.x and Ubuntu Linux