How does one make models in Rails?

Question

I've gone over the tutorial, used the scaffold command to make a model, etc.

I noticed that it mentioned more experienced programmers would probably create all their models from scratch... What is the "appropriate" way to do so?

If it's a simple answer and I'm just Googlin' the wrong keywords, I apologize in advance.

Answer 1

Open your text editor to app/models/modelname.rb and start typing. :)

Until you're that good though, script/generate model <modelname> is there for you: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ruby_on_Rails/Built-In_Rails_Tools/Generators

Answer 2

ruby script/generate model model_name