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Crafting Rails 4 Applications, 2nd Edition
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Crafting Rails 4 Applications, 2nd Edition

by Jose Valim
November 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
200 pages
4h 31m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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More Ways to Customize Generators

Now that we understand how responders work and how to adapt them to our needs, we can feel confident about using them more and more in our controllers. The only issue is that the scaffold generator uses respond_to by default, and not respond_with.

On the other hand, in Generators’ Hooks, we discussed how to customize generators, and there must be a hook to customize the controller generated in scaffold, right? Let’s look at the scaffold’s output:

 
invoke active_record
 
create db/migrate/20130415031520_create_users.rb
 
create app/models/user.rb
 
invoke resource_route
 
route resources :users
 
invoke scaffold_controller
 
create app/controllers/users_controller.rb
 
invoke erb
 
create app/views/users
 
create ...
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