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devoured elysium
devoured elysium

Reputation: 105217

Scaffolding only the view files in Rails. Possible?

After its initial construction, I have added a couple of columns to my Books database table. As I actually want my views to reflect and show the fields related to all these new added columns I figured it'd be cheaper to just delete everything that's inside the views/books/ folder, and have some scaffold code regenerate it from the ground up. I don't want to delete either the controller or the model file, as both already contain some logic I'd like to keep. I'm fine editing those files myself on a on-need basis.

How to accomplish the task?

From https://stackoverflow.com/a/4333530/130758 I can see scaffold seems to have options for both controllers and models, but unfortunately, not for views. Am I bound to have to do this grunt work by myself? I'm aware I can just create a new git branch, delete the + model + views and regenerate all of them, copy paste the the views back into the original branch and I'm ready to go, but I'd prefer a more scientific approach, whenever possible.

Thanks

Upvotes: 25

Views: 10821

Answers (1)

Jaap Haagmans
Jaap Haagmans

Reputation: 6352

I know this question is probably too old to help the person who originally asked the question, but I'd like to point out that the default scaffold generator calls the erb:scaffold generator to generate the ERB files. So, you can do:

rails g erb:scaffold Book

This will return:

create  app/views/books
create  app/views/books/index.html.erb
create  app/views/books/edit.html.erb
create  app/views/books/show.html.erb
create  app/views/books/new.html.erb
create  app/views/books/_form.html.erb

Upvotes: 83

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