A reader writes:

"how bout the scaffolding itself? how can i customize the rhtml codes of the list view, show view, edit view etc..?in
the weblog you editted how the blogs will be listed so you had the list.rhtml for it, how did you get it?"

Below is my answer. Perhaps we can strengthen the short description of what scaffolding is, and how you can edit it,and
point to other resources.

To learn how to customize the .rhtml, try the second part of this series: http://www.netbeans.org/kb/60/ruby/model.html.
In that tutorial, you edit the show.rhtml file.

For example, I can open Views > blog > list.rhtml and change it to this:

<h1>My Ruby Blog</h1>

<% @posts.reverse.each do |post| %>
  <h2><%= post.title %></h2>
  <p style="background: blue; color: white;"><%= post.body %></p>
  <small> <%= link_to 'Permalink', :action => 'show', :id => post %></small>
  <hr>
<% end %>

<%= link_to 'Previous page', { :page => @post_pages.current.previous } if @post_pages.current.previous %>
<%= link_to 'Next page', { :page => @post_pages.current.next } if @post_pages.current.next %>

<br />

<%= link_to 'New post', :action => 'new' %>


You asked how to get the list.rhtml. In the Creating a Controller section, you edited the blog_controller.rb to add this
line

  scaffold :post


That Rails method creates automatically a simple set of views for creating, editing, viewing, and destroying entries. To
learn more go to http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/Scaffold