Remove public/ files for API apps

- Fixes #25180

2 files changed, 18 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/railties/lib/rails/generators/rails/app/app_generator.rb b/railties/lib/rails/generators/rails/app/app_generator.rb
index 4d5bb364b2..1ac6fae908 100644
--- a/railties/lib/rails/generators/rails/app/app_generator.rb
+++ b/railties/lib/rails/generators/rails/app/app_generator.rb
@@ -305,6 +305,17 @@ module Rails
         end
       end
 
+      def delete_public_files_if_api_option
+        if options[:api]
+          remove_file 'public/404.html'
+          remove_file 'public/422.html'
+          remove_file 'public/500.html'
+          remove_file 'public/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png'
+          remove_file 'public/apple-touch-icon.png'
+          remove_file 'public/favicon.ico'
+        end
+      end
+
       def delete_js_folder_skipping_javascript
         if options[:skip_javascript]
           remove_dir 'app/assets/javascripts'
diff --git a/railties/test/generators/api_app_generator_test.rb b/railties/test/generators/api_app_generator_test.rb
index 8e1cd0891a..46efa3856c 100644
--- a/railties/test/generators/api_app_generator_test.rb
+++ b/railties/test/generators/api_app_generator_test.rb
@@ -105,6 +105,12 @@ class ApiAppGeneratorTest < Rails::Generators::TestCase
        lib/assets
        vendor/assets
        test/helpers
-       tmp/cache/assets)
+       tmp/cache/assets
+       public/404.html
+       public/422.html
+       public/500.html
+       public/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png
+       public/apple-touch-icon.png
+       public/favicon.ico)
   end
 end