Scaffold Generator in Ruby

From the Ruby on Rails cheat sheet · Generators · verified Jul 2026

Scaffold Generator

Generate complete CRUD resource with all components

bash

# Full scaffold
rails generate scaffold Post title:string body:text published:boolean

# API scaffold
rails generate scaffold_controller api/v1/Article \
  title:string body:text \
  --api

✅ Creates model, migration, controller, views, routes, tests

💡 Great for prototyping, customize afterwards

🔍 --api flag creates API-only scaffold without views

⚠️ Generates a lot of files - review before committing

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