Generate a controller with all the RESTful functions

Question

I am trying to generate a controller with all the RESTful actions stubbed. I had read at Wikibooks - Ruby on Rails that all I needed to do was to call the generator with the co

Answer 1

You're looking for scaffolding.

Try:

script/generate scaffold Property

This will give you a controller, a model, a migration and related tests. You can skip the migration with the option --skip-migration. If you don't want the others, you'll have to delete them yourself. Don't worry about overwriting existing files, that won't happen unless you use --force.

As klew points out in the comments, this also defines the method bodies for you, not just the names. It is very helpful to use as a starting point for your REST controller.