Rails scaffold without the css file?

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Is there a way to generate a scaffold in rails 3.0 so that scaffold.css does NOT get created? Something at the command line I can enter to skip that step?

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score 69 · Accepted Answer · answered May 11 '11 at 15:42

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There is a --no-stylesheets flag you can use:

rails g scaffold MyModel --no-stylesheets

answered May 11 '11 at 15:42

Dylan Markow

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NOTE: this will also disabling resource specific stylesheets, i.e. `app/assets/stylesheets/my_model.css.scss` won't be created – wik Oct 15 '12 at 17:48
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Utilizing `--no-stylesheets` is a good idea if your app uses Twitter Bootstrap, because the `scaffold.css` file that Rails generates overrides quite a few of Bootstrap's styles. – XåpplI'-I0llwlg'I - Jun 15 '13 at 13:31

score 46 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 13 '11 at 17:20

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You can also disable it by default -- in config/application.rb:

config.generators do |g|
  g.stylesheets false
end

Rails itself only uses it for scaffold.css AFAIK, but unfortunately the same hook could be used by other generators, so you might need to remember to pass --stylesheets for a third-party gem that generates assets, for instance. It'd be really nice if Rails had an explicit option for scaffold.css :-/

You can find other generator options in the Rails Guides, by the way. Helpers are nice to turn off by default and generate them when you actually want them.

answered Sep 13 '11 at 17:20

ches

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rails has an option to specifically disable the scaffold.css: ```g.scaffold_stylesheet false``` – eikes Dec 16 '16 at 11:18
Thanks @eikes, fairly certain that setting didn't exist in Rails 3 days but if the question/tags are updated for current versions I'll happily give your answer my vote. – ches Dec 16 '16 at 11:22

eikes · Answer 3 · 2016-12-17T15:05:44.107

Since Rails 5.0, there is a configuration in config/application.rb which specifically disables generating the app/assets/stylesheets/scaffolds.css, but still generates the stylesheets for your new resource:

config.generators do |g|
  g.scaffold_stylesheet false
end

You can also pass it in as the --no-scaffold-stylesheet command line option:

rails generate scaffold post title body:text --no-scaffold-stylesheet

Rails scaffold without the css file?

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