if you don't use scaffolding, is ruby on rails still good for rapid development?
Scaffolding is just a demo and learning feature. It's not intended for use in real site development. It's certainly not Rails' primary strength.
If you take out the scaffolding feature where it creates the model/controller, and CRUD pages for you, is ruby on rails still any faster to market than say, django?
It seems very similiar to be if you take away that step...(even though I believe django has similar auto-gen capabilities)
I am reading the starting guide on the rails site, and when it introduces the scaffolding feature, it says that many people prefer to hand code these types of areas.