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If you're looking for something a little different in your scaffolded views, you can create templates. We still don't recommend using this technique for production applications, but such a customization may be useful during prototyping iterations.

Customization is done by creating view templates:

Custom scaffolding views for a specific controller 
(PostsController in this example) should be placed like so:

/app/views/posts/scaffold.index.ctp
/app/views/posts/scaffold.show.ctp
/app/views/posts/scaffold.edit.ctp
/app/views/posts/scaffold.new.ctp

Custom scaffolding views for all controllers should be placed like so:

/app/views/scaffolds/index.ctp
/app/views/scaffolds/show.ctp
/app/views/scaffolds/edit.ctp
/app/views/scaffolds/new.ctp
/app/views/scaffolds/add.ctp