Question

I created some templates for the auto-generation code by grails install-templates, but some unnecessary files like form.gsp are still created. How can I remove them? I cannot find a config file to modify and create only my templates. Can anyone help me?

Answer 1

Grails builds up the list of templates that it needs to generate from by combining the default set of templates in GRAILS_HOME with the ones installed in your app, with the one in your app taking precedence in the case of a name clash. So if you delete a template from your app’s src/templates then Grails will simply use the built-in version of that template instead. I presume this is deliberate don’t-repeat-yourself behaviour, to allow you to selectively override some of the templates but stick with the defaults for others without having to have a duplicate copy of the ones you haven’t modified.

So I don’t think you can prevent the form.gsp from being created when you generate-views, but if your modified scaffolding templates don’t reference it then it does no harm being there and you can just ignore it. You could create an empty version in your src/templates

<%-- This file intentionally left blank --%>