Newbie scaffolding question

[eluser]Doug Lerner[/eluser]
One thing that I thought was "wow, cool!" when trying out RoR was scaffolding.

But in reading the CI documentation on scaffolding it seems to be a technique that is not recommended except for development and that it is considered a security risk otherwise.

But having the ability to use scaffolding to quickly set up CRUD for table data is one of the key things I thought was useful about having a framework, like Rails or CodeIgniter.

Is something like that for an actual production app in CI not available? If you have to set up all the forms and db queries manually anyway, it seems like a big potential time saver is lost. Is that not the case?

Thanks,

doug