Using custom scaffold templates for Rails models and controllers?
After getting tired of rebuilding all my default scaffold models, views and controllers I decided to create custom templates as outlines on various blogs / SA questions etc.
I created:
/lib/templates/active_record/model.rb
/lib/templates/rails/scaffold_controller/controller.rb
/lib/templates/erb/scaffold/_form.html.erb.tt (and so on for the actions etc.)
I added this to my config/application.rb
file:
config.generators do |g|
g.orm :active_record
g.template_engine :erb
g.test_framework :test_unit, fixture: true
g.skip_routes true
end
I then run the scaffold:
rails g scaffold MyModel name description notes:text flag_active:boolean slug company_id:integer
Running via Spring preloader in process 52960
invoke active_record
create db/migrate/20200130165523_create_my_models.rb
create app/models/my_model.rb
invoke test_unit
create test/models/my_model_test.rb
create test/fixtures/my_models.yml
invoke resource_route
route resources :my_models
invoke inherited_resources_controller
create app/controllers/my_models_controller.rb
invoke erb
create app/views/my_models
create app/views/my_models/index.html.erb
create app/views/my_models/edit.html.erb
create app/views/my_models/show.html.erb
create app/views/my_models/new.html.erb
create app/views/my_models/_form.html.erb
invoke test_unit
create test/controllers/my_models_controller_test.rb
create test/system/my_models_test.rb
invoke helper
create app/helpers/my_models_helper.rb
invoke test_unit
invoke jbuilder
create app/views/my_models/index.json.jbuilder
create app/views/my_models/show.json.jbuilder
create app/views/my_models/_my_model.json.jbuilder
invoke assets
invoke coffee
create app/assets/javascripts/my_models.coffee
invoke scss
create app/assets/stylesheets/my_models.scss
The issues are that the model and controller templates are not used and the views work fine.
I found this post https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23624311/scaffolding-rails4-empty-controller detailing that active admin (which I use) uses inherited_resources_controller
. I am guessing that is part of the issue but I am at a loss how to fix this. I can't seem to find an obvious solution posted anywhere else.
UPDATE
https://stackoverflow.com/a/20906765/1135515
The model template needs to be in:
/lib/templates/active_record/model/model.rb
And the controller template needs to be:
/lib/templates/rails/inherited_resources_controller/controller.rb
My updated question would be then why is rails using inherited_resources_controller vs scaffold controller and can I fix that?
I stumbled on half of the solution - if I put my controller template in inherited_resources_controller that seems to fix the controller template issue.