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

As of Rails 4.2, it's possible to disable route generation with the following code in your application.rb:

config.generators do |g|
  g.skip_routes  true
end

Source: https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/4b173b8ed90cb409c1cdfb922914b41b5e212cb6

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

untested...

config.generators do |g|
  g.resource_route false
end

https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/master/railties/lib/rails/generators.rb

Answer 4

Create your own generator! Following link will help:

http://guides.rubyonrails.org/generators.html

Answer 5

This is counter intuitive, but here it is what you're looking for:

config.generators do |g|
  g.skip_routes true
end

Answer 6

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