How to prevent Rails controller generator to modify config/routes.rb

Question

Sometimes I run a command like rails g controller foo index to generate skeletons for controller and template.

Because I don\'t want to have helpers and

Answer 1

Looks like routes generation is hardcoded. Have a look at this method https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/master/railties/lib/rails/generators/rails/controller/controller_generator.rb#L12

I think, the simplest way is to override with monkey-patch . Something like

module Rails
  module Generators
    class ControllerGenerator < NamedBase 
      def add_routes
        #do nothing...
      end
    end
  end
end

you can put it to initializer and try.