Ruby on Rails Generating Views

Question

Is there a way to generate the views separately using the rails generate command? I would also be willing to install a gem to accomplish that task f one exists. Basically the scaffolding command gives me too much and I would rather code my controller by hand. However, writing the index view with a table for the records would not be very efficient.

Answer 1

You can generate the controller and the view using the controller generator.

rails g controller controllername new create

This will create actions new and create with their corresponding views.

You still need to set up your routes manually with this.

Answer 2

One particular situation is when you want to add a new view to an existing controller.

In that case, just use the regular command, but be careful to say 'n' every time prompted in order to not overwrite existing files.

For example, adding a view called 'invite' to an existing controller named 'projects':

smith@ubuntuSrv16DEV4:~/railsapps/project_manager$ rails -v
Rails 5.1.4
smith@ubuntuSrv16DEV4:~/railsapps/project_manager$ rails generate controller projects invite
Running via Spring preloader in process 46253
    conflict  app/controllers/projects_controller.rb
Overwrite /home/smith/railsapps/project_manager/app/controllers/projects_controller.rb? (enter "h" for help) [Ynaqdh] n
        skip  app/controllers/projects_controller.rb
       route  get 'projects/invite'
      invoke  erb
       exist    app/views/projects
      create    app/views/projects/invite.html.erb
      invoke  test_unit
    conflict    test/controllers/projects_controller_test.rb
  Overwrite /home/smith/railsapps/project_manager/test/controllers/projects_controller_test.rb? (enter "h" for help) [Ynaqdh] n
        skip    test/controllers/projects_controller_test.rb
      invoke  helper
   identical    app/helpers/projects_helper.rb
      invoke    test_unit
      invoke  assets
      invoke    coffee
   identical      app/assets/javascripts/projects.coffee
      invoke    scss
    conflict      app/assets/stylesheets/projects.scss
    Overwrite /home/smith/railsapps/project_manager/app/assets/stylesheets/projects.scss? (enter "h" for help) [Ynaqdh] n
        skip      app/assets/stylesheets/projects.scss
smith@ubuntuSrv16DEV4:~/railsapps/project_manager$ 

Answer 3

the first part is the name of the model/controller, the second part are the actions.