What's the difference between --skip-stylesheets and --no-stylesheets

Question

I wanted to generate scaffold without stylesheets, and I found these two flags: --skip-stylesheets, --no-stylesheets. What's the difference between them?

Answer 1

If you run rails g scaffold --help, it will show help information for that generator along with a list of options.

Some of the options have default values. For example, if you look at

-y, [--stylesheets]                           # Generate Stylesheets
                                              # Default: true

You see it defaults to true. If you don't want to generate stylesheets, you can prefix the option with --no to disable that specific option.

The skip-stylesheets option is defined in the [Runtime options] section as follows:

-s, [--skip]     # Skip files that already exist

So to answer your question:

--no-stylesheets doesn't generate stylesheets at all

--skip-stylesheets generates stylesheets but skips the ones that already exist.