Don't create view folder on rails generate controller

Question

Is there a way with the usual generators config to turn OFF the creation of the view folders and action templates when you run a rails generate controller?

Answer 1

To skip views from being generated with your controller, disable the template engine.

Once:

rails g controller ControllerName action1 action2 --skip-template-engine

Note that every --skip option also has an aliased --no option.

Default:

# config/application.rb

config.generators do |g|
  g.template_engine false
end

# OR

config.generators.template_engine = false

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If you have an API-only application (no front end), you may also want to skip assets and helpers from being generated with your controllers.

Once:

rails g controller api/users --no-helper --no-assets --no-template-engine

Default:

# config/application.rb

config.generators do |g|
  g.assets false
  g.helper false
  g.template_engine false
end

# OR

config.generators.assets = false
config.generators.helper = false    
config.generators.template_engine = false

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Disabling assets skips stylesheets and javascripts from being generated. If you only want to skip one, use --no-stylesheets or --no-javascripts, or in config/application.rb use:

config.generators.stylesheets = false
config.generators.javascripts = false

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If your default configuration skips something from being generated (e.g. assets and helpers) but you need them in one case, you can generate them like so:

rails g controller foo --helper --assets --skip

where --skip skips generating files that already exist.