Generate a controller with all the RESTful functions

Question

I am trying to generate a controller with all the RESTful actions stubbed. I had read at Wikibooks - Ruby on Rails that all I needed to do was to call the generator with the co

Answer 1

Rails 5.1

Starting point:

You have created a model without a controller, nor views (eg thru: rails generate model category)

Objective:

Upgrade it to a full RESTful resource

Command:

rails generate scaffold_controller category

It stubs out a scaffolded controller, its seven RESTful actions and related views. (Note: You can either pass the model name CamelCased or under_scored.)

Output:

varus@septimusSrv16DEV4:~/railsapps/dblirish$ rails generate scaffold_controller category
Running via Spring preloader in process 45681
      create  app/controllers/categories_controller.rb
      invoke  erb
      create    app/views/categories
      create    app/views/categories/index.html.erb
      create    app/views/categories/edit.html.erb
      create    app/views/categories/show.html.erb
      create    app/views/categories/new.html.erb
      create    app/views/categories/_form.html.erb
      invoke  test_unit
      create    test/controllers/categories_controller_test.rb
      invoke  helper
      create    app/helpers/categories_helper.rb
      invoke    test_unit
      invoke  jbuilder
      create    app/views/categories/index.json.jbuilder
      create    app/views/categories/show.json.jbuilder
      create    app/views/categories/_category.json.jbuilder