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Is there a way to generate a rails scaffold without the views, there has to be a better way then generating the scaffold and deleting the views and the view specs.

Ibrahim Muhammad
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You can use rails g resource Foo bar:text

drexin
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  • Note it will also do fixtures, yaml and routes. Fixtures and tests will depend on your testing framework. You can also do `rails g model...` and rails generate controller... for more restrictive output. – junky Mar 12 '12 at 19:36
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    `rails g resource` is what I was looking for. generating the model and then a controller does not create a RESTful controller. – Ibrahim Muhammad Mar 12 '12 at 19:42
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    `rails g resource` does not generate restful actions inside the controllers. – vishB Nov 18 '15 at 06:29
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    @whistler See [my answer](http://stackoverflow.com/a/37597087/616644) for how to get the RESTful actions auto generated as well. – Rick Smith Jun 02 '16 at 16:15
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If you would like to have the controllers generated in the normal fashion, try this:

rails g resource Foo bar:text
rails g scaffold_controller Foo --skip-template-engine

The first command generates the model and the second one uses the generated model to create the controller which includes the RESTful actions.

--skip-template-engine causes the views to be omitted.

Rick Smith
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    This won't work right away because the second command will error out (since you already defined the resource in the first and can't/shouldn't overwrite it just like that). See for a better answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/39649519/5925094 – Rich Steinmetz Jun 05 '21 at 16:18
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Not sure why these answers create the resource first when you can just generate the entire scaffold without the views but still get your controller methods and model. 

rails g scaffold Foo bar:string --skip-template-engine
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