Why do Ruby on Rails professionals NOT use Scaffolding?

Question

I read sometimes from people that seem to be working with rails since longer, that one important lesson they learnt would be \"Don\'t use scaffolding\". Also on irc I read c

Answer 1

I don't use scaffolding for two reasons:

• Rails scaffolding puts everything in a html tables - I don't like that
• I prefer to use rails_admin gem for my admin pages so there is no need for 90% of the scaffold code

Your xml concerns are not the reason why people advise against using scaffolding. I don't bother with XML versions of my pages as it doubles the number of routes your app must generate, which in turn increases the overheads a little...