Rails: Default generators

Posted About 7 years ago. Visible to the public.

This is a visualization of the files that will be generated by some useful rails generators. Invoke a generator from command line via rails generate GENERATOR [args] [options]. List all generators (including rails generators) with rails g -h.

generator model migration controller entry in routes.rb views tests
scaffold ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
resource ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
model ✔ ✔ ✔
controller ✔ ✔ ✔
migration ✔

Also see this blog post Show archive.org snapshot .

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Posted by Daniel Straßner to makandra dev (2017-03-30 13:21)
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