Any Rails scaffold data types that generate radio buttons in the _form.html.erb?

Question

For instructional purposes, I'd like to generate scaffolds which showcase radio buttons. You can generate a scaffolding with checkboxes with:

rails generate scaffold Person name:string honest:boolean

boolean data types create checkboxes for the _form.html.erb file used when creating or editing people above. Is there anything that creates radio buttons?

Answer 1

No, not using the default scaffold generator. Each attribute type (integer, string, boolean etc) defaults to one field type. See rails/generators/generated_attributes.rb for how it is implemented.

If you still want to automatically create radio-buttons for the boolean values, you may have to override the default scaffold generator. Here's some documentation on how to do that , though I recommend that you change your check_box fields to radio_button fields manually.