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When generating a model via Rails' generators, for instance rails g model Project title complete:boolean, Rails will also generate helpers and assets. In most cases, we don't actually want these model specific files and end up deleting them.

Is there a way we can prevent Rails from generating these files in the first place?

Answer:

Reveal Answer

Sure is!

We can disable generation of helpers and assets using the following configuration block in our config/application.rb file:

config.generators do |generate|
  generate.helper false
  generate.assets false
end

Check out the [Rails guide to Configuring Generators][] for all the available generator specific options.

[Rails guide to Configuring Generators]: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/configuring.html#configuring-assets

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