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

Since you want this particular application to not generate routes.

You can deploy your gems to local/project folder and override them.

In your rails project folder

bundle install --path /my_rails_path/lib/

Now you can see all of you libraries ported to your project lib/ folder

Go to the below file (path changes depending upon your versions)

lib/ruby/1.9.1/gems/railties-3.2.15/lib/rails/generators/rails/controller/controller_generator.rb

and comment the function add_routes

  def add_routes
    #actions.reverse.each do |action|
    #  route %{get "#{file_name}/#{action}"}
    #end
  end

NOTE: This trick will not affect any other rails application in your system