To your point about not using scaffolding as a tool to speed development: I have found that rails' scaffolding commands make me lazy. I will routinely destroy,

To your point about not using scaffolding as a tool to speed development: I have found that rails' scaffolding commands make me lazy. I will routinely destroy, and recreate, an entire scaffold because I need to change it; somehow I think this is easier than just editing the file I already have on my system -- only to then spend 10 minutes combing through all the changes rails made so I don't lose any of the changes I made. It's very silly.