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

In Rails 4/5 the following command does the trick for me.

rails g scaffold_controller Property --skip-template-engine

It generated the controller actions but not the view.

Answer 2

script/generate rspec_scaffold Property

Answer 3

There's no way (that I know of? that is documented?) to stub out a controller except through scaffolding. But you could do:

script/generate controller WhateverController new create edit update destroy show

Answer 4

In Rails 4 it's rails g controller apps new create update edit destroy show index

Or rails generate controller apps new create update edit destroy show index if you want to write out the full term :).

Answer 5

In Rails 3 there is also rails generate scaffold_controller .... More info here.

Answer 6

You're looking for scaffolding.

Try:

script/generate scaffold Property

This will give you a controller, a model, a migration and related tests. You can skip the migration with the option --skip-migration. If you don't want the others, you'll have to delete them yourself. Don't worry about overwriting existing files, that won't happen unless you use --force.

As klew points out in the comments, this also defines the method bodies for you, not just the names. It is very helpful to use as a starting point for your REST controller.