rails g scaffold_controller <name>
Even though you already have a model, you can still generate the necessary controller and migration files by using the rails generate option. If you run rails generate -h you can see all of the options available to you.
Rails:
controller
generator
helper
integration_test
mailer
migration
model
observer
performance_test
plugin
resource
scaffold
scaffold_controller
session_migration
stylesheets
If you'd like to generate a controller scaffold for your model, see scaffold_controller. Just for clarity, here's the description on that:
Stubs out a scaffolded controller and its views. Pass the model name, either CamelCased or under_scored, and a list of views as arguments. The controller name is retrieved as a pluralized version of the model name.
To create a controller within a module, specify the model name as a path like `'parent_module/controller_name'`.
This generates a controller class in app/controllers and invokes helper, template engine and test framework generators.
To create your resource, you'd use the resource generator, and to create a migration, you can also see the migration generator (see, there's a pattern to all of this madness). These provide options to create the missing files to build a resource. Alternatively you can just run rails generate scaffold with the --skip option to skip any files which exist :)
I recommend spending some time looking at the options inside of the generators. They're something I don't feel are documented extremely well in books and such, but they're very handy.
**TL;DR**: `rails g scaffold_controller <name>`
Even though you already have a model, you can still generate the necessary controller and migration files by using the `rails generate` option. If you run `rails generate -h` you can see all of the options available to you.
Rails:
controller
generator
helper
integration_test
mailer
migration
model
observer
performance_test
plugin
resource
scaffold
scaffold_controller
session_migration
stylesheets
If you'd like to generate a controller scaffold for your model, see `scaffold_controller`. Just for clarity, here's the description on that:
> Stubs out a scaffolded controller and its views. Pass the model name,
either CamelCased or under_scored, and a list of views as arguments.
The controller name is retrieved as a pluralized version of the model
name.
> To create a controller within a module, specify the model name as a
path like 'parent_module/controller_name'.
> This generates a controller class in app/controllers and invokes helper,
template engine and test framework generators.
To create your resource, you'd use the `resource` generator, and to create a migration, you can also see the `migration` generator (see, there's a pattern to all of this madness). These provide options to create the missing files to build a resource. Alternatively you can just run `rails generate scaffold` with the `--skip` option to skip any files which exist :)
I recommend spending some time looking at the options inside of the generators. They're something I don't feel are documented extremely well in books and such, but they're very handy.