What is scaffolding? Is it a term for a particular platform?

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AnonymousAnonymous picture AnonymousAnonymous · Oct 24, 2008 · Viewed 53.7k times · Source

Scaffolding, what is it? Is it a Rails-only thing?

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swilliams picture swilliams · Oct 24, 2008

Scaffolding generally refers to a quickly set up skeleton for an app. It's not rails-only since other platforms have it as well. It's also not generally meant to be a "final" system; merely the first, smallest way to do it.

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