Ruby on Rails ActiveRecord Creating a Model via generator
Example
Ruby on Rails provides a model generator you can use to create ActiveRecord models. Simply use rails generate model and provide the model name.
$ rails g model user
In addition to the model file in app/models, the generator will also create:
- the Test in
test/models/user_test.rb - the Fixtures in
test/fixtures/users.yml - the database Migration in
db/migrate/XXX_create_users.rb
You can also generate some fields for the model when generating it.
$ rails g model user email:string sign_in_count:integer birthday:date
This will create the columns email, sign_in_count and birthday in your database, with the appropriate types.
