Friday, January 28, 2011

Re: Is bake DRY?

On Jan 28, 8:41 am, keymaster <ad...@optionosophy.com> wrote:
> Although I have been developing with cake for some time (generally
> loving every minute), I have never understood the rationale for cake's
> bake utility duplicating so many nearly identical copies of every
> action and every view all across your system, in a seemingly total
> contradiction of DRY principles.
>
> Why would you want basically the same code duplicated all across your
> app?
>
> Wouldn't it be smarter for bake to create a single instance of generic
> crud ops in the AppController, with a single admin_index.ctp
> configurable for  cols, labels, models, error msgs, fields, etc. and
> if there is nothing configured, it defaults to what it can learn from
> the database?

you're describing scaffolding, which is great right up until you want
to modify it.

>
> The generic actions/views could always be overrided in specific
> controllers.
>
> Anyone have a clue why bake works this way?

so you can edi the files.

AD

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