I am trying to create a gem with a generator for Rails 3 (beta 4). I followed these instructions, and but I couldn't get it running. The problem is that when I am defining a module in the generator file, the generator gets listed with 'rails generate', but can't get executed because the generator isn't found.
From the instructions (doesn't work with 'rails generate my_gem:install'):
module MyGem
class InstallGenerator < Rails::Generators::Base
source_root File.expand_path("../templates", __FILE__)
# all public methods in here will be run in order
def add_my_initializer
template "initializer.rb", "config/initializers/my_gem_initializer.rb"
end
end
end
Modified (works with 'rails generate install):
class InstallGenerator < Rails::Generators::Base
source_root File.expand_path("../templates", __FILE__)
# all public methods in here will be run in order
def add_my_initializer
template "initializer.rb", "config/initializers/my_gem_initializer.rb"
end
end
However, I want to have namespaces for the generator, e.g. company:gem_name:generator, for which I have to use the module approach (I think). My guess is that it has something to do with the lookup and the directory structure, but I couldn't figure out how. I tried a couple of approaches:
lib
-generators
--my_gem.rb
lib
-generators
--company
---my_gem.rb
lib
-generators
--company
---my_gem_name
----my_gem.rb
but nothing helped. I also found quite a bit on the Internet, but non if showed what I needed.