cdesch/rails_generator_cheat_sheet.md

Reference

You can get all of this information on the command line.

rails generate with no generator name will output a list of all available generators and some information about global options. rails generate GENERATOR --help will list the options that can be passed to the specified generator.

rails generate scaffold Post name:string title:string content:text

rails generate model Post title:string body:text published:boolean

rails generate migration AddFieldToModel field:type

:primary_key, :string, :text, :integer, :float, :decimal, :datetime, :timestamp, :time, :date, :binary, :boolean

Documentation

rails generate rspec:model widget

will create a new spec file in spec/models/widget_spec.rb

The same generator pattern is available for all specs:

scaffold
model
controller
helper
view
mailer
observer
integration
feature
job

Generating specific views

rails g rspec:view widget index edit new show
      create  spec/views/widget
      create  spec/views/widget/index.html.erb_spec.rb
      create  spec/views/widget/edit.html.erb_spec.rb
      create  spec/views/widget/new.html.erb_spec.rb
      create  spec/views/widget/show.html.erb_spec.rb