Generate only tests from existing model / controllers

Question

I have a Rails3 app that is based on someone else\'s work. For some reason they decided not to supply the tests with the app, which I am finding frustrating.

What I

Answer 1

There's no way to do this that I'm aware of. It would be pretty easy though to just create a temporary rails project and generate scaffolds for all of your models then copy the resulting test directory into the real project.

I.e.

rails new temporary
cd temporary
rails g scaffold Post title:string body:text
rails g scaffold Comment post:references author:string body:text
cp -r test ../real_rails_app/

etc.

This answer is now out of date. Up to date rails versions allow you to generate only the missing files with the skip option.