I have an existing mysql database set up, and would like to set up a new rails up simply so my client can view and edit the records in the db. How can I set up a scaffold linked to my existing db. The db name is “Products” and has just one table called “pins”.
Pins tables:
+----------------+---------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
| Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra |
+----------------+---------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
| id | int(11) | NO | PRI | NULL | auto_increment |
| type | text | YES | | NULL | |
| title | text | YES | | NULL | |
| description | text | YES | | NULL | |
| price | text | YES | | NULL | |
| img_src | text | YES | | NULL | |
| source | text | YES | | NULL | |
| sr_id | text | YES | | NULL | |
| category | varchar(1000) | YES | | NULL | |
| pinner | text | YES | | NULL | |
| pinner_id | text | YES | | NULL | |
| board_cat | text | YES | | NULL | |
| board_name | text | YES | | NULL | |
| board_url | text | YES | | NULL | |
| like_count | bigint(20) | YES | | NULL | |
| repins_count | bigint(20) | YES | | NULL | |
| comments_count | bigint(20) | YES | | NULL | |
| pinned_count | bigint(20) | YES | | NULL | |
| actions_count | bigint(20) | YES | | NULL | |
| error_404 | bigint(20) | YES | | NULL | |
| pin_at | text | YES | | NULL | |
| social_rank | bigint(20) | YES | | NULL | |
| created_at | text | NO | | NULL | |
| updated_at | text | NO | | NULL | |
| isgiftable | int(11) | YES | | NULL | |
| sr_id_int | bigint(20) | YES | | NULL | |
+----------------+---------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
You can set the database name in
config/database.yml. You’ll want to have aPinmodel which will map to the correct table automatically. The fields in the database will map to attributes in the model automatically, though you may need to write some glue if the names of the fields are wonky.It’s hard to give more advice than this without more info.