Rails::Generators::Base

base_root()

Returns the base root for a common set of generators. This is used to dynamically guess the default source root.

📝 Source code

# File railties/lib/rails/generators/base.rb, line 226
      def self.base_root
        __dir__
      end

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default_source_root()

Returns the default source root for a given generator. This is used internally by rails to set its generators source root. If you want to customize your source root, you should use source_root.

📝 Source code

# File railties/lib/rails/generators/base.rb, line 217
      def self.default_source_root
        return unless base_name && generator_name
        return unless default_generator_root
        path = File.join(default_generator_root, "templates")
        path if File.exist?(path)
      end

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desc(description = nil)

Tries to get the description from a USAGE file one folder above the source root otherwise uses a default description.

📝 Source code

# File railties/lib/rails/generators/base.rb, line 39
      def self.desc(description = nil)
        return super if description

        @desc ||= if usage_path
          ERB.new(File.read(usage_path)).result(binding)
        else
          "Description:\n    Create #{base_name.humanize.downcase} files for #{generator_name} generator."
        end
      end

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hide!()

Convenience method to hide this generator from the available ones when running rails generator command.

📝 Source code

# File railties/lib/rails/generators/base.rb, line 59
      def self.hide!
        Rails::Generators.hide_namespace(namespace)
      end

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hook_for(*names, &block)

Invoke a generator based on the value supplied by the user to the given option named “name”. A class option is created when this method is invoked and you can set a hash to customize it.

Examples

module Rails::Generators
  class ControllerGenerator < Base
    hook_for :test_framework, aliases: "-t"
  end
end

The example above will create a test framework option and will invoke a generator based on the user supplied value.

For example, if the user invoke the controller generator as:

rails generate controller Account --test-framework=test_unit

The controller generator will then try to invoke the following generators:

"rails:test_unit", "test_unit:controller", "test_unit"

Notice that “rails:generators:test_unit” could be loaded as well, what Rails looks for is the first and last parts of the namespace. This is what allows any test framework to hook into Rails as long as it provides any of the hooks above.

Options

The first and last part used to find the generator to be invoked are guessed based on class invokes hook_for, as noticed in the example above. This can be customized with two options: :in and :as.

Let's suppose you are creating a generator that needs to invoke the controller generator from test unit. Your first attempt is:

class AwesomeGenerator < Rails::Generators::Base
  hook_for :test_framework
end

The lookup in this case for test_unit as input is:

"test_unit:awesome", "test_unit"

Which is not the desired lookup. You can change it by providing the :as option:

class AwesomeGenerator < Rails::Generators::Base
  hook_for :test_framework, as: :controller
end

And now it will look up at:

"test_unit:controller", "test_unit"

Similarly, if you want it to also look up in the rails namespace, you just need to provide the :in value:

class AwesomeGenerator < Rails::Generators::Base
  hook_for :test_framework, in: :rails, as: :controller
end

And the lookup is exactly the same as previously:

"rails:test_unit", "test_unit:controller", "test_unit"

Switches

All hooks come with switches for user interface. If you do not want to use any test framework, you can do:

rails generate controller Account --skip-test-framework

Or similarly:

rails generate controller Account --no-test-framework

Boolean hooks

In some cases, you may want to provide a boolean hook. For example, webrat developers might want to have webrat available on controller generator. This can be achieved as:

Rails::Generators::ControllerGenerator.hook_for :webrat, type: :boolean

Then, if you want webrat to be invoked, just supply:

rails generate controller Account --webrat

The hooks lookup is similar as above:

"rails:generators:webrat", "webrat:generators:controller", "webrat"

Custom invocations

You can also supply a block to hook_for to customize how the hook is going to be invoked. The block receives two arguments, an instance of the current class and the class to be invoked.

For example, in the resource generator, the controller should be invoked with a pluralized class name. But by default it is invoked with the same name as the resource generator, which is singular. To change this, we can give a block to customize how the controller can be invoked.

hook_for :resource_controller do |instance, controller|
  instance.invoke controller, [ instance.name.pluralize ]
end

📝 Source code

# File railties/lib/rails/generators/base.rb, line 172
      def self.hook_for(*names, &block)
        options = names.extract_options!
        in_base = options.delete(:in) || base_name
        as_hook = options.delete(:as) || generator_name

        names.each do |name|
          unless class_options.key?(name)
            defaults = if options[:type] == :boolean
              {}
            elsif [true, false].include?(default_value_for_option(name, options))
              { banner: "" }
            else
              { desc: "#{name.to_s.humanize} to be invoked", banner: "NAME" }
            end

            class_option(name, defaults.merge!(options))
          end

          hooks[name] = [ in_base, as_hook ]
          invoke_from_option(name, options, &block)
        end
      end

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namespace(name = nil)

Convenience method to get the namespace from the class name. It's the same as Thor default except that the Generator at the end of the class is removed.

📝 Source code

# File railties/lib/rails/generators/base.rb, line 52
      def self.namespace(name = nil)
        return super if name
        @namespace ||= super.sub(/_generator$/, "").sub(/:generators:/, ":")
      end

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remove_hook_for(*names)

Remove a previously added hook.

remove_hook_for :orm

📝 Source code

# File railties/lib/rails/generators/base.rb, line 198
      def self.remove_hook_for(*names)
        remove_invocation(*names)

        names.each do |name|
          hooks.delete(name)
        end
      end

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source_root(path = nil)

Returns the source root for this generator using default_source_root as default.

📝 Source code

# File railties/lib/rails/generators/base.rb, line 32
      def self.source_root(path = nil)
        @_source_root = path if path
        @_source_root ||= default_source_root
      end

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add_shebang_option!()

Small macro to add ruby as an option to the generator with proper default value plus an instance helper method called shebang.

📝 Source code

# File railties/lib/rails/generators/base.rb, line 389
        def self.add_shebang_option! # :doc:
          class_option :ruby, type: :string, aliases: "-r", default: Thor::Util.ruby_command,
                              desc: "Path to the Ruby binary of your choice", banner: "PATH"

          no_tasks {
            define_method :shebang do
              @shebang ||= begin
                command = if options[:ruby] == Thor::Util.ruby_command
                  "/usr/bin/env #{File.basename(Thor::Util.ruby_command)}"
                else
                  options[:ruby]
                end
                "#!#{command}"
              end
            end
          }
        end

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Use Rails default banner.

📝 Source code

# File railties/lib/rails/generators/base.rb, line 318
        def self.banner # :doc:
          "rails generate #{namespace.sub(/^rails:/, '')} #{arguments.map(&:usage).join(' ')} [options]".gsub(/\s+/, " ")
        end

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base_name()

Sets the base_name taking into account the current class namespace.

📝 Source code

# File railties/lib/rails/generators/base.rb, line 323
        def self.base_name # :doc:
          @base_name ||= begin
            if base = name.to_s.split("::").first
              base.underscore
            end
          end
        end

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default_aliases_for_option(name, options)

Returns default aliases for the option name given doing a lookup in Rails::Generators.aliases.

📝 Source code

# File railties/lib/rails/generators/base.rb, line 350
        def self.default_aliases_for_option(name, options) # :doc:
          default_for_option(Rails::Generators.aliases, name, options, options[:aliases])
        end

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default_for_option(config, name, options, default)

Returns default for the option name given doing a lookup in config.

📝 Source code

# File railties/lib/rails/generators/base.rb, line 355
        def self.default_for_option(config, name, options, default) # :doc:
          if generator_name && (c = config[generator_name.to_sym]) && c.key?(name)
            c[name]
          elsif base_name && (c = config[base_name.to_sym]) && c.key?(name)
            c[name]
          elsif config[:rails].key?(name)
            config[:rails][name]
          else
            default
          end
        end

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default_generator_root()

📝 Source code

# File railties/lib/rails/generators/base.rb, line 415
        def self.default_generator_root # :doc:
          path = File.expand_path(File.join(base_name, generator_name), base_root)
          path if File.exist?(path)
        end

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default_value_for_option(name, options)

Returns the default value for the option name given doing a lookup in Rails::Generators.options.

📝 Source code

# File railties/lib/rails/generators/base.rb, line 344
        def self.default_value_for_option(name, options) # :doc:
          default_for_option(Rails::Generators.options, name, options, options[:default])
        end

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generator_name()

Removes the namespaces and get the generator name. For example, Rails::Generators::ModelGenerator will return “model” as generator name.

📝 Source code

# File railties/lib/rails/generators/base.rb, line 333
        def self.generator_name # :doc:
          @generator_name ||= begin
            if generator = name.to_s.split("::").last
              generator.sub!(/Generator$/, "")
              generator.underscore
            end
          end
        end

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usage_path()

📝 Source code

# File railties/lib/rails/generators/base.rb, line 407
        def self.usage_path # :doc:
          paths = [
            source_root && File.expand_path("../USAGE", source_root),
            default_generator_root && File.join(default_generator_root, "USAGE")
          ]
          paths.compact.detect { |path| File.exist? path }
        end

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extract_last_module(nesting)

Takes in an array of nested modules and extracts the last module

📝 Source code

# File railties/lib/rails/generators/base.rb, line 276
        def extract_last_module(nesting) # :doc:
          nesting.inject(Object) do |last_module, nest|
            break unless last_module.const_defined?(nest, false)
            last_module.const_get(nest)
          end
        end

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indent(content, multiplier = 2)

📝 Source code

# File railties/lib/rails/generators/base.rb, line 291
        def indent(content, multiplier = 2) # :doc:
          spaces = " " * multiplier
          content.each_line.map { |line| line.blank? ? line : "#{spaces}#{line}" }.join
        end

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module_namespacing(&block)

Wrap block with namespace of current application if namespace exists and is not skipped

📝 Source code

# File railties/lib/rails/generators/base.rb, line 285
        def module_namespacing(&block) # :doc:
          content = capture(&block)
          content = wrap_with_namespace(content) if namespaced?
          concat(content)
        end

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namespace()

📝 Source code

# File railties/lib/rails/generators/base.rb, line 301
        def namespace # :doc:
          Rails::Generators.namespace
        end

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namespaced?()

📝 Source code

# File railties/lib/rails/generators/base.rb, line 305
        def namespaced? # :doc:
          !options[:skip_namespace] && namespace
        end

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namespaced_path()

📝 Source code

# File railties/lib/rails/generators/base.rb, line 313
        def namespaced_path # :doc:
          @namespaced_path ||= namespace_dirs.join("/")
        end

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wrap_with_namespace(content)

📝 Source code

# File railties/lib/rails/generators/base.rb, line 296
        def wrap_with_namespace(content) # :doc:
          content = indent(content).chomp
          "module #{namespace.name}\n#{content}\nend\n"
        end

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Rails::Generators::Base < Thor::Group

Methods

Included Modules

Class Public methods

base_root()

default_source_root()

desc(description = nil)

hide!()

hook_for(*names, &block)

Examples

Options

Switches

Boolean hooks

Custom invocations

namespace(name = nil)

remove_hook_for(*names)

source_root(path = nil)

Class Private methods

add_shebang_option!()

banner()

base_name()

default_aliases_for_option(name, options)

default_for_option(config, name, options, default)

default_generator_root()

default_value_for_option(name, options)

generator_name()

usage_path()

Instance Private methods

extract_last_module(nesting)

indent(content, multiplier = 2)

module_namespacing(&block)

namespace()

namespaced?()

namespaced_path()

wrap_with_namespace(content)