Should a new app be initially baked or not?

[LCR]

Hi,

I'm just starting out on Cake, have read the entire manual online and watched various videos, etc. (Red eyes now!)

I've done the blog tutorial which entails a 'vanilla' download of cake and writing some code, but some of the tutorials I've seen say that you should bake the app to start with (cake bake <appname>), and this appears to provide you with somewhat fuller contents for your 'app' directory from the outset - e.g., it puts a pages_controller.php in /controllers, and even app_controller.php, app_helper.php and app_model.php in the ROOT directory of the app, which is against convention if I've understood correctly...

So my question is: is it better to start developing on top of a fresh download, or on top of a "baked" app?

Many thanks.

[blux]

Hi,

It doesn't matter. Baking an app will only save you some writing time. It will create some files in the root directory and it is correct to do so. I will not repeat myself and redirect you to this discussion

EDIT : I moved the topic in the right section of the forum

[LCR]

Thank you, Blux.