How to Create Custom Scaffold Templates in Ruby on Rails

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Ruby on Rails is such a powerful framework. It has its own CLI of which harnesses what are known as "generators". These generators can quickly scale up resources for your app with a few keystrokes. In this post learn how to create custom scaffold templates in Ruby on Rails

Conventions get you far

Having made quite a few brand new Ruby on Rails apps in my time I always find the default look and feel of scaffolding out a resource a bit lackluster. By default, Rails generates a ton of files and stylesheets associated with a given model you pass on the command line when creating a new "scaffold".

Example:

$ rails generate scaffold Post title:string body:text

The command above will create an entire CRUD-like concept around the Post model in a given rails application. To do this it generates a number of files which include everything from stylesheets to test-specific files. It also creates an Active Record migration file which will later be migrated into a database. This ultimately means a new table is born called posts.

This concept is a huge time saver. This is especially true if you're just prototyping an idea or testing a theory.

Extending conventions

Within a typical scaffold, you get an entire view folder with associated views for the restful routing that gets created.

app/views/posts/_form.html.erb app/views/posts/edit.html.erb app/views/posts/index.html.erb app/views/posts/new.html.erb app/views/posts/show.html.erb

Here we get the bare bones views with the logic they need to make the app work as intended. Having run so many scaffolds in my time I've come to realize I hate the default look and feel. Can this be changed? The answer to that is YES!

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