Comments on: Where art thou generator?

By: Divide and Conquer » Blog Archive » The humble beginnings of The Project

Sun, 06 Jan 2008 21:31:24 +0000

[...] found so far is Akita’s tutorial. So far I have restful_authentication working (from the restful_authentication gem), a “welcome” controller and two domain-specific models. I’m working on two [...]

By: Wellbutrin xl.

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By: Luke Melia

Luke Melia — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 16:12:01 +0000

Great stuff! All aboard the gem train.

By: Dr Nic

Dr Nic — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 07:41:56 +0000

@matt - sweet; my first core contribution

I’ll update the description from “patch this” to “go get yourself some sweet edge sexiness” soon.

By: Matt Aimonetti

Matt Aimonetti — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 01:40:44 +0000

Congrats, your patch made it to Edge http://dev.rubyonrails.org/changeset/7139

Thanks for a great new feature and you just need to check out Edge to give it a try. (no monkey patching needed)

By: Dr Nic

Dr Nic — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 17:26:08 +0000

@mislav - thx, fixed

By: Mislav

Mislav — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 15:56:39 +0000

In your code there is mention of “script/generator” - it should be “script/generate”.

By: Robert

Robert — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 15:15:00 +0000

@Nic: Ah ok, my bad. I should have read your article *after* I had my caffiene. Then I completely agree with you!

By: Dr Nic

Dr Nic — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 15:02:52 +0000

@Robert - I’m sorry for the confusion on gems in rails - I wasn’t inferring that gems should be put in the /vendor/gems folder at all. I was actually trying to publicize the concept and show that the two patches work together. I probably shouldn’t have blurred the original purpose of the article.

By: Robert

Robert — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 14:51:21 +0000

This is something that has been bothering me lately and I personally think this is a good way to go. As far as I see it, plugins are to extend Rails Core, not provide an application module like authentication - where the plugin then becomes useless because it has created a file in your lib/ folder.

I’m also not sure if the solution is putting the GEM inside the Rails application either, when we are talking about running a generator that writes code to our lib/ file and is never used again. It wouldn’t make sense to me to keep that GEM, that is never used again, in our application/vendor/gem.

However, I believe all generators ought to move to the way of GEMS instead of plugins. Plugins should be for extending Rails and anything that will generate code for your application and not for Rails, should be a GEM.