If like me you are used to work with existing database schemas, the reverse_scaffold script should be interesting for you.

Just download it from GitHub and copy the file into the "script" folder of your Ruby on Rails application.

You can then execute it from your terminal :

$ ruby script/reverse_scaffold users user

For this example I presume you have an existing "users" table in your database described by the following columns :

• id


• pseudo


• email


• password

In this case, the script will execute the command :

ruby script/generate scaffold user --skip-migration id:integer pseudo:string email:string password:string

As you understood, the first argument represents the name of the table and the second one is the name of the model to generate.

You can use the -V option if you don't want to execute the scaffold but just display the generated command.

If you are an RSpec adept, you can specify the -r option and rspec_scaffold will then be used.

For more information :

$ ruby script/reverse_scaffold -h