How to reverse a 'rails generate'

Question

I want to delete all the files it created and roll back any changes made, but not necessarily to the database, but more to the config files.

I\'d like to automatical

Answer 1

Before reverting the rails generate, please make sure you rollback the migration first.

Case 1: if you want to revert scaffold then run this command:

rails destroy scaffold MODEL_NAME

Case 2: if you want to revert model then run this command:

rails destroy model MODEL_NAME

Case 3: if you want to revert controller then run this command:

rails destroy controller CONTROLLER_NAME

Note: you can also use shortcut d instead of destroy.

Answer 2

You could use rails d model/controller/migration ... to destroy or remove the changes generated by using the rails generate command.

For example:

rails g model Home name:string

creates a model named home with attribute name. To remove the files and code generated from that command we can use

rails d model Home

Answer 3

This is a prototype to generate or destroy a controller or model in Rails:

rails generate/destroy controller/model [controller/model Name]

For example, if you need to generate a User Controller:

rails generate controller User

or

rails g controller User

If you want to destroy the User controller or revert to above action then use:

rails destroy controller User

or:

rails d controller User

Answer 4

You can destroy all things that was created same way except little thing change. For controller,

rails d controller_name (d stands for destroy)

For Model

rails d model_name

you just put d(destroy) instead of g(generate) in your migration.

Answer 5

Suppose I have created a controller named "sample" like:

rails generate controller sample

If I have to destroy this controller, all I have to do is swap generate with destroy, as in

rails destroy controller sample.

If you want to reverse the generation, all you have to do is swap generate with destroy.