For that in console you can write the code like
rails g model City
it will create the City model for you. As you said, you have existing table, so you don't need the migration generated by the above syntax. So you should delete the generated migration from db/migrate.
OR else you can do one thing just add city.rb file in the app/models. Then add the code
class City < ActiveRecord::Base
# if your table name is cities, then you don't need to do any thing.
# if your table name is something else rather than cities then place the following commented code
# self.table_name = 'your_existing_city_table_name'
# then you have to add columns of the table as attr_accessible. for e.g. you have name, state_id in there
attr_accessible :name, :state_id
end
Hope it will work for you :)