Using scaffold to create a module

When creating a new Odoo module, there is some boilerplate that needs to be set up. To help quick start new modules, Odoo provides the scaffold command.

The recipe shows how to create a new module using the scaffold command, which will put in place a skeleton of the file directories to use.

Getting ready

We need Odoo installed and a directory for our custom modules.

We will assume that Odoo is installed at ~/odoo-dev/odoo and our custom modules will be at ~/odoo-dev/local-addons.

How to do it...

The scaffold command is used from the command...