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adding options to erb scaffold generator to include or skip custom views / templates

Reported by Deleted User | August 6th, 2010 @ 07:09 PM

When I was working on customizing the erb scaffold generator to match the style and design I wanted to use by creating custom templates in /lib/templates/erb/scaffold I found that I wanted to add additional files.

I can now do something like the following:

$ rails generate scaffold FitType key:string name:string description:text --add-views=_nav --skip-views=new ...

  invoke    erb
  create      app/views/fit_types
  create      app/views/fit_types/index.html.erb
  create      app/views/fit_types/edit.html.erb
  create      app/views/fit_types/show.html.erb
  create      app/views/fit_types/_form.html.erb
  create      app/views/fit_types/_nav.html.erb

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Deleted User August 6th, 2010 @ 07:13 PM
- Tag set to “patch”
- configuration_for_erb_scaffold_templates.diff 1.5 KB
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Robert Pankowecki August 7th, 2010 @ 10:44 AM
It seems quite nice but is it much better than just removing or adding those files later by yourself like
```
rails generate scaffold ... && rm app/views/fit_types/new* && touch app/views/fit_types/_nav.html.erb
```
?
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Deleted User August 8th, 2010 @ 08:23 PM
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Much better? IMHO yes..

Since by having it as an option, I can set the argument in the configuration file, and not have to type anything extra at all for each invocation, allowing me to have the scaffolding the way I want it, each and every time I invoke it.

This is about saving time, and keystrokes so After invoking the scaffold, I have either no changes necessary, or very minimal changes to make to make the resulting pages meet functional and aesthetic spec.
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Deleted User August 8th, 2010 @ 08:23 PM
- Tag set to “patch”
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Andrea Campi October 9th, 2010 @ 05:24 PM
- Tag changed from “patch” to “generators, patch”
+1

Also, I verified the patch still applies cleanly and works as advertised.
Ryan Bigg October 11th, 2010 @ 12:10 PM
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Aditya Sanghi October 13th, 2010 @ 06:27 PM
+1

Seems nice. I like more options on generators and such like.

The patch could do with some tests though.
Aditya Sanghi October 13th, 2010 @ 06:28 PM
- State changed from “new” to “incomplete”
- Tag set to “patch”
Marking incomplete till we have patch with tests.
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Deleted User October 19th, 2010 @ 04:56 PM
Please excuse me being new to this, but how would I write a test for this?
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Andrea Campi October 19th, 2010 @ 10:14 PM
- Tag changed from “patch” to “generators, patch”
Try looking at @railties/test/generators/scaffold_generator_test.rb@, as well as the documentation for run_generators in @railties/lib/rails/generators/test_case.rb@; that should give you a starting point.
Jeff Kreeftmeijer November 7th, 2010 @ 04:56 PM
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Jeff Kreeftmeijer November 8th, 2010 @ 08:28 AM
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Santiago Pastorino February 9th, 2011 @ 12:31 AM
- State changed from “incomplete” to “open”
This issue has been automatically marked as stale because it has not been commented on for at least three months.

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Santiago Pastorino February 9th, 2011 @ 12:31 AM
- State changed from “open” to “stale”