Suppress Rails from generating controller specific asset files

Written on July 30, 2016

By default, Rails will generate a JavaScript file and a CSS file (or CoffeeScript and Sass if you’re using the coffee and sass -rails gems) when you generate a controller.

I personally like to structure my asset files differently instead of being controller specific. For this reason, I choose to have Rails suppress the automatic generation of asset files when controllers are generated.

To do this, you’ll want to add this bit of code in your config/application.rb file.

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

So your final file should look something like this:

...
module App 
  class Application < Rails::Application
    config.generators do |g|
      g.assets false
    end
  end
end

Now whenever you generate a controller, the asset files won’t be generated, leaving it up to you to create and structure your asset files the way you want it.

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