Comments on: Writing rails plugins - tips and tricks - plugins with generators

By: gener

gener — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 03:01:18 +0000

[…] […]

By: kumar

kumar — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:18:28 +0000

This is really good post for plugin generator, I am searching for same kind of post..now got it ..thanks!

By: Nicolas

Nicolas — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 12:03:04 +0000

Hi,
Thank you so much for this tutorial.
I work with rails for 6 months and I have a question, I’ve never found answer.
I would like to run a “generate” from a rails application.
For example, I would like to call “ruby script\generate test_gen asdas_dasda asd:ash” but from a controller. It means generating files with template and associate this action with an action of one of my controller
Thank you for any help
Nicolas B

By: Nicolas

Nicolas — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:16:29 +0000

Amazing. Thank you so much for so greate tutorial
Nicolas

By: goodwill

goodwill — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:41:07 +0000

I am trying to customize rails 2.0.x scaffold generator then come across this blog. I wonder if you know I could extend the feature in Rails::Generator::Commands::Create within the generator to add additional method (such as namespaces based route generation) ? Sample code would be very appreciated.

By: stronghold crusader extreme

stronghold crusader extreme — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:16:04 +0000

Very useful information I see there are realy good tips. I am going to use some of them

By: stronghold crusader extreme

stronghold crusader extreme — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:05:26 +0000

Very nice btw very good tips i will use them.

By: peterh

peterh — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:34:26 +0000

Worked perfectly, thanks

By: Urubatan

Urubatan — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:51:21 +0000

Sorry, it was my mistake, I forgot to add the following line in the text:
to be able to access the attributes migration_name and migration_action in the template, we need create the accessor methods for them, it is as easy as adding the following line to the TestGenGenerator class:

1	attr_accessor :migration_name, :migration_action

By: peterh

peterh — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 20:32:34 +0000

I get errors when I try following these steps and running the generator.

First of all, I get “undefined local variable or method `file’ for #”, and if I comment out the m.file line that goes away.

Then, I get “undefined local variable or method `migration_name’ for #”. If I change all the references to migration_name and migration_action in the template to be instance variables, which I expected them to be, the error becomes “You have a nil object when you didn’t expect it!
The error occurred while evaluating nil.underscore”, and the generated migration file is empty.