From: Tomas Landin Date: 2005-10-24T17:07:01+09:00 Subject: Re: Newby syntax question Achim Domma (SyynX Solutions GmbH) wrote: > What exactly is 'scaffold' in this case? A class method of > ApplicationController? Does this method manipulate the RecipeController > class somehow? Or am I on the complete wrong way? scaffold is, according to http://api.rubyonrails.com/ a public instance method of ActionController::Scaffolding::ClassMethods. The RDoc page can be found here: http://api.rubyonrails.com/classes/ActionController/Scaffolding/ClassMethods.html What it does is it adds a number of instance methods to the controller class from where you call it. In this case, RecipeController.