Ruby on Rails 2.1 - The Generators

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Ruby provides a script called Generator. This script can be used to generate many useful items in Rails. The most important generators are listed below.

Generator	Description
script/generate model ModellName	Generates Active Records.
script/generate controller ListController show edit	Generates Controller.
script/generate scaffold ModelName ControllerName	Generates Scaffold.
script/generate migration AddNewTable	Generates Table to migrate.
script/generate plugin PluginName	Generates Plugin.
script/generate integration_test TestName	Generates Integ Test.
script/generate session_migration	Generates Session Migration.

Given below is a list of options that can be used along with generators −

• -p, --pretend Run but do not make any changes.

• -f, --force Overwrite files that already exist.

• -s, --skip Skip files that already exist.

• -q, --quite Suppress normal output.

• -t, --backtrace Debugging: show backtrace on errors.

• -h, --help Show this help message.

• -c, --svn Modify files with subversion.