Question

Does anyone know of a rake task or RSpec call that will generate a bunch of empty files relative to the existing controllers, models, helper files and views that already exist within your application?

Answer 1

The best solution for this is to add hooks in place within environment.rb to create the spec.rb files within the rails application each time a model or controller is created.

Here’s the code for that (using RSpec and FactoryGirl):

module RailsApp

  class Application < Rails::Application
    config.generators do |g|
      g.test_framework  :rspec, :fixture_replacement => :factory_girl, :views => true, :helper => false
      g.fixture_replacement :factory_girl, :dir => 'spec/factories'
      g.stylesheets     false
      g.javascripts     false
      g.helper          false
    end

  end
end