
Generators: Rails' Unknown Power Feature - RUBY 602
Ruby Rogues
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How to Use Ruby on Rails to Create and Modify Files
The primary command there is template and it looks in the generators templates folder. ERB gives you access to a whole plethora of inflections for the class names, the file names. You can run git commands via Ruby and the generator. There's even a fixture file name. And so then you have all of these actions template. Some are provided from Thor and some are rail specific, right? So you can insert gems into the gem file. One command can recreate a whole directory.
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