Ruby on Rails Rails generate commands Rails Generate Model
Example
To generate an ActiveRecord model that automagically creates the correct db migrations & boilerplate test files for your model, enter this command
rails generate model NAME column_name:column_type
'NAME' is the name of the model. 'field' is the name of the column in the DB table and 'type' is the column type (e.g. name:string or body:text). Check the Remarks section for a list of supported column types.
To setup foreign keys, add belongs_to:model_name.
So say you wanted to setup a User model that has a username, email and belongs to a School, you would type in the following
rails generate model User username:string email:string school:belongs_to
rails g is shorthand for rails generate. This would produce the same result
rails g model User username:string email:string school:belongs_to
