Coming back to CakePHP after a few years away. I'm rebuilding an app using 2.5.5. I think the last time I used Cake, the stable version was at the 1.x level.
Back in the day, I would use scaffolding a lot, and then bake everything using the console (I think... I'm still in a bit of a fog since it has been so long... my memory is so hazy).
I thought scaffolding was pretty useful. Why was it deprecated? Is there a solid scaffolding plugin out there that is super stable? If most people aren't using scaffolding at all these days, what is your typical workflow for building new apps?
What is scaffolding ?
It looks like it was removed because a third-party plugin ([CRUD](https://github.com/FriendsOfCake/crud/tree/cake3)) was handling scaffolding better, and keeping scaffolding in the core distribution was causing some duplicate code relating to controllers.
See [the 3.0.0-dev2 announcement](https://groups.google.com/d/msg/cake-php/VYUqzXsKVII/lrq2lba64Q0J) for more information.