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Excellent suggestion!

There's fix #8994 to prevent creating projects with name 's', 'db' and so on with Rails 3, but that one is a bit ugly and does not really solve the problem. If you use both Rails 2.3 and Rails 3, you will keep creating those 's' projects for a long time (transition from Rails 2.3 to Rails 3 will certainly take some time). Anyone using rvm (Ruby version manager) knows what I am talking about. Rails 2.3.6 should also include a fix that would warn if you try to create project under name 'init'.

'rails init' also feels much more natural than the current default behavior.

The fix number I should have written is #4602 Make 's' reserved word in 'rails ...' command, not 8994.

+1 rails init <project_name> feels better.

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This is change from how things have worked previously but IMHO change for the better.

+1 for the change, I've been hit by this same problem too and it would be nice to do rails init app-name. Can somebody start working on a patch?

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Since the rails command handles everything (like generating scaffolds, starting the server and console etc.) in Rails 3, rails appname to generate an app doesn't feel right anymore. I think rails init appname is much more like the rest of the rails command and it'll keep me from having to remove directories like "s" or "console". Great suggestion! :)

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This irritates me so much when I do it, everyone seems to do it too.

I have a quick fix that I posted as a gist on github, obviously this probably needs more to see if you're already in a rails app directory, but if you're sick of the accidental app creation then it should work.

And here's a patch, sorry there's so many comments

That's awesome news Mikel! Cheers Pyry for bringing it up and Justin for the patch. :)

Documentation/Guides/Tutorials will have to be updated though, but the help message shouldn't be too hard for a user to follow if they run rails testapp after following a guide to create an application before this.

Any further work on this?

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Yup, almost done :)

Awesome, been waiting to see it in rails/master!

+1 great idea.

You can kick tyres here with doc update here if you are interested.

After some discussion it was changed from init to new, because it reads more like English and is a better word for what we are doing.

Should be merged into master the next few.

Mikel

Thanks Mikel! Just installing now and will let you know if it goes or blows.

The usage of the "rails" command still says

rails APP_PATH [options]

Maybe I'm being picky?

Really? Where (or when)? I'll fix. I thought I found all of those...

Thanks Ryan, good spotting, fixed in this commit

Awesome work! Can't wait to see this in Rails master :)

After this addition to rails is there a way to generate app with older rails version? In 3.0.0.beta3 I could use rails 2.3.8 app_name

You can still do rails _2.3.8_ app_name to generate an app for 2.3.8.

Oh I'm sorry... it's working perfectly. Messed up on my end :)