The Cucumber Book, 2nd Edition

Creating a Controller by Hand

It may be tempting at this point to run a Rails generator to generate the controller, views, helpers, tests, and who knows what other files. We’ll resist this temptation and implement the bare minimum by hand. This way, we don’t end up with a lot of code that isn’t tested and that we might not even need. Let’s map our controller to config/routes.rb:

rails/10/config/routes.rb

Rails.application.routes.draw do
  resources :users
end

Add app/controllers/users_controller.rb:

rails/10/app/controllers/users_controller.rb

class UsersController < ApplicationController
  def show
  end
end

And a view in app/views/users/show.html.erb with some temporary content:

rails/10/app/views/users/show.html.erb

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