Re-Generating Scaffold

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Is there any way to re-generate views from newly updated model?

score 14 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 01 '08 at 18:31

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Unless you've made a lot of changes to the scaffold, it's probably easier just to overwrite the current scaffold:

./script/generate -f scaffold Model

answered Dec 01 '08 at 18:31

Benny Wong

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What is -f ? Couldn't find '-f' generator – totocaster Dec 02 '08 at 09:36
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-f, or --force, will overwrite files that already exists. You can run script/generate scaffold to see all available options. – Mike Breen Dec 02 '08 at 19:00
Thanks for the better answer. +1 – Kristian Dec 04 '12 at 06:22
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Should be `rails g scaffold Model -f` or `rails generate scaffold Model --force`. Anyway, thank you :) – Volker Rose Dec 11 '12 at 20:50
@totocaster 'Couldn't find '-f' generator' error is when you didn't put -f or --force option at the right place! Put it after model name. – Aboozar Rajabi Jul 08 '20 at 04:44

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 15 '15 at 10:24

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I had the same need, I just backed up some changes and did a destroy/generate, Take care, destroy deletes Everything related to the Model :

rails destroy scaffold Model -f

before I generate again.

rails generate scaffold Model

answered Dec 15 '15 at 10:24

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 01 '08 at 18:02

The scaffold is not intended to create the interface, only to make a starting point for further development. I'm not sure it's even possible (without a lot of unnecessary work) to redo a scaffold, it's much quicker to manually edit the view and controller anyway.

Re-Generating Scaffold

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