Question

I’m trying to customize my scaffold generator, and I would like to have a new partial for the view in the same directory, in particular _item to be called both inside index and show. I can get all the templates but I’m not able to generate this file through

rails g scaffold foo name:string

I tried to put _item.erb in /lib/templates/erb/scaffold/ (together with the other files) but it is ignored- Does anybody have a clue?

I use ruby on rails 3, but please let me know if the solution is valid for rails 2 as well.
I also use simple_form (thus I already have the _form partial), but I think the solution should be valid even without it.

Answer 1

Just found it.

It is hardcoded. You can change it:

https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/master/railties/lib/rails/generators/erb/scaffold/scaffold_generator.rb

  def available_views
    %w(index edit show new _form)
  end

In my index template I did like this:

        <thead id="thead_js">
        <%%= render 'thead' %>

        <!-- CUT TO _thead.html.erb -->
        <tr>
            <% for attribute in attributes -%>
                <th><%%= sortable( <%= attribute.name %>, <%= attribute.human_name %> ) %></th>
            <% end %>
            <th>&nbsp;</th>
        </tr>
        <!-- END CUT TO -->

    </thead>

Then, just created a rake task that reads that comment and create the new files.

Ugly but effective.