Comment What purpose? (Score 1) 348
Which, of course, kinda defeats the purpose of automatically generating code in the first place.
So, you've asked the Rails developers what their purpose was in using generated code?
The sole reason Rails has generators is to do the tedious bit that gets you started. That's all it's there for, that's all it was ever there for.
The confusion over this is in large part due to the early Rails marketing strategy of making screencast videos instead of readable documents, IMO; everyone latched onto the scaffold thing because it was visual. But scaffolding is really, really ridiculously unimportant.