We will use the scaffold command to create boilerplate code. Follow the given steps to create new a module using the scaffold command:

1. Change the working directory to where we will want our module to be. This can be whatever directory you choose, but it needs to be within an add-on path to be useful. Following the directory choices that we used in the previous recipe, it should be as follows:

$ cd ~/odoo-dev/local-addons

2. Choose a technical name for the new module, and use the scaffold command to create it. For our example, we will choose my_module:

$ ~/odoo-dev/odoo/odoo-bin scaffold my_module 

3. Edit the __manifest__.py default module manifest provided and change the relevant values. You will surely want to at least change the module title in the name key.

This is what the generated add-on module should look like:

$ tree my_module
my_module/
├── __init__.py
├── __manifest__.py
├── controllers
│   ├── __init__.py
│   └── controllers.py
├── demo
│   └── demo.xml
├── models
│   ├── __init__.py
│   └── models.py
├── security
│   └── ir.model.access.csv
└── views
    ├── templates.xml
    └── views.xml

5 directories, 10 files

You should now edit the various generated files and adapt them to the purpose of your new module.