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A collection of Rails generators that automate common code generation tasks in Rails applications.
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 Project Readme

rails-code-generator

Custom Rails generators for scaffolding and code generation in Rails applications.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem "rails-code-generator", git: "https://github.com/msweat254/rails-code-generator.git"

Or install directly from GitHub:

gem install rails-code-generator --source https://rubygems.org

Once published to RubyGems.org:

bundle add rails-code-generator

Usage

Generators are invoked from within a Rails application.

rails_code_generator:resources

Generates a full resource stack (controller, services, validators, and request specs) from Ion Solar backend conventions.

bin/rails generate rails_code_generator:resources PricingConfig
bin/rails generate rails_code_generator:resources PricingConfig --bulk

Options

Flag Default Description
--bulk false Generate bulk create/update/destroy patterns

Generated files (for PricingConfig):

Path Single Bulk
app/controllers/pricing_configs_controller.rb yes yes
app/services/pricing_configs/build.rb yes yes
app/services/pricing_configs/save.rb yes yes
app/services/pricing_configs/update.rb yes yes
app/validators/pricing_configs/create_validator.rb yes yes
app/validators/pricing_configs/update_validator.rb yes yes
spec/requests/pricing_configs/index_spec.rb yes yes
spec/requests/pricing_configs/show_spec.rb yes yes
spec/requests/pricing_configs/create_spec.rb yes yes
spec/requests/pricing_configs/update_spec.rb yes yes
spec/requests/pricing_configs/destroy_spec.rb yes yes

Bulk vs single differences

  • Controller, services, and validators use single or bulk snippet patterns
  • Request specs: bulk create/update use pricing_configs: {} param key (plural); bulk destroy passes params: { ids: ids } instead of an id in the path
  • PERMITTED_ATTRIBUTES and validator fields are generated as stubs — fill them in after running the generator

Other generators:

bin/rails generate rails_code_generator:<generator_name>

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and the created tag, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Generator structure

Generators live under lib/generators/rails_code_generator/. Each generator follows the standard Rails generator layout:

lib/generators/rails_code_generator/
  my_thing/
    my_thing_generator.rb
    templates/
      ...

Invoked as bin/rails generate rails_code_generator:my_thing.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at msweat254/rails-code-generator.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.