I believe the problem is that if you are you using ActiveScaffold for teams and players, then the routes.rb needs to look like:

map.resources :teams, :active_scaffold => true
map.resources :players, :active_scaffold => true

I will look at adding the comments and extra help that you mention. Thanks for the feedback.

I’ve been struggling to make this work for me with just some basic Controllers, but I’m also a real Rails newbie who doesn’t have time to hack on this alot. I’d like to make a couple of suggestions to improve the docs.

1. mention that Ruby 1.9.x won’t work at all currently. I went down this route initially on my Ubuntu Karmic VM that I setup. Big mistake. So I dropped back to 1.8.x and it’s now working.

2. Can you please give a stupid basic example of how to setup a pair of models, their controllers and what routes are needed? And any other stuff that needs to be tweaked? I’ve done:

  script/generate model Team name:string
  script/generate model Player first:string last:string team:references
   vi app/model/team.rb
       - add in:   has_many :players
  rake db:migrate
 script/generate controller Team index
  vi app/controllers/team_controller.rb
      - add in:   active_scaffold
  vi app/config/routes.rb
     - add in before the map.static call:
        map.resources :teams
  rake db:migrate
  script/server

then when I goto the web page, it craps out with something like the following, which honestly doesn’t tell me enough to let me know where I’m not doing the right thing.

 ActionController::RoutingError in Teams#index

Showing vendor/plugins/active_scaffold/frontends/default/views/_list_header.html.erb where line #8 raised:

No route matches {:action=>"show_search", :controller=>"teams", :_method=>:get}

Extracted source (around line #8):

5:
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Trace of template inclusion: vendor/plugins/active_scaffold/frontends/default/views/list.html.erb

RAILS_ROOT: /home/john/Web/Soccer/basejumper2

You might be interested by this project:

http://jackdempsey.github.com/beet/

I too love to build a lot of little apps to test out ideas, etc. I got tired of having to do the same thing time and time again, while not being able to reuse similar ideas across recipes.

Jack

I’ve been browsing GitHub looking at plugins and such, but often it’s hard for me to judge if something is solid, reliable, and useful, or just unmaintained junk. A few that you mentioned I haven’t heard of, so I really appreciate it.

Dave