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diff --git a/railties/lib/rails_generator/generators/components/scaffold_resource/USAGE b/railties/lib/rails_generator/generators/components/scaffold_resource/USAGE index d72db2103e..c5046d7d63 100644 --- a/railties/lib/rails_generator/generators/components/scaffold_resource/USAGE +++ b/railties/lib/rails_generator/generators/components/scaffold_resource/USAGE @@ -1,8 +1,23 @@ Description: - Explain the generator + The scaffold resource generator creates a model, a controller, and a set of templates for use in a REST-like, + resource-oriented fashion. This basically means that it follows a set of conventions to exploit the full set of + HTTP verbs (GET/POST/PUT/DELETE) and is prepared for multi-client access (like one view for HTML, one for an XML + API, one for ATOM, etc). Everything comes with sample unit and functional tests as well. + + The generator takes the name of the model as its first argument. This model name is then pluralized to get the + controller name. So "scaffold_resource post" will generate a Post model and a PostsController and will be intended + for URLs like /posts and /posts/45. + + As additional parameters, the generator will take attribute pairs described by name and type. These attributes will + be used to prepopulate the migration to create the table for the model and to give you a set of templates for the + view. For example, "scaffold_resource post title:string created_on:date body:text published:boolean" will give + you a model with those four attributes, forms to create and edit those models from, and an index that'll list them + all. + + You don't have to think up all attributes up front, but it's a good idea of adding just the baseline of what's + needed to start really working with the resource. Example: - ./script/generate scaffold_resource Thing - - This will create: - what/will/it/create + ./script/generate scaffold_resource post # no attributes, view will be anemic + ./script/generate scaffold_resource post title:string created_on:date body:text published:boolean + ./script/generate scaffold_resource purchase order_id:integer created_at:datetime amount:decimal
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