Undo scaffolding in Rails
Is there any way to 'undo' the effects of a scaffold command in Rails? Rishav Rastogi First , if you have already run the migrations generated by the scaffold command, you have to perform a rollback first. rake db:rollback You can create scaffolding using: rails generate scaffold MyFoo (or similar), and you can destroy/undo it using rails destroy scaffold MyFoo That will delete all the files created by generate , but not any additional changes you may have made manually. Misha Rabinovich Rishav Rastogi is right, and with rails 3.0 or higher its: rails generate scaffold ... rails destroy