coreymartella-dmd_generator

DMD generators

One night at a Boston Ruby hackfest, I finally got sick of using the Rails default generators, and then having to twiddle them to meet my needs and tastes. This includes using things like:

• shoulda
• factory_girl
• haml
• blueprint
• make_resourceful

The next morning, I was struck awake at 5am with the inspiration to start implementing it. dmd_generator is the result of this effort.

What you get

dmd_model

• A new model that allows belongs_to and references field types
• A migration for the model
• Skip using --skip-migration
• A factory defined with factory_girl
• Skip using --skip-factory
• A shoulda unit test with a few simple 'should's

Prereqs:

• shoulda installed as a plugin
• factory_girl gem installed

dmd_scaffold

• Everything included in dmd_model
• A controller, using make_resourceful
• Choice of haml (default) or ERB
  • Specify which with the --templating option
• A helper

Prereqs:

• shoulda installed as a plugin
• factory_girl gem installed
• factory_girl_on_rails installed as a plugin
• haml gem installed on the system, and the project has been hamlified using haml --rails
• make_resourceful

Getting it

dmd_generator is available as a gem via GitHub. If you haven't done so already, you need to setup GitHub as a gem source:

$ gem sources -a http://gems.github.com

Now you can install it:

$ sudo gem install coreymartella-dmd_generator

Example usage

Usage is the same as the default Rails generators.

$ script/generate dmd_model post title:string author:belongs_to body:text published:boolean 
$ script/generate dmd_scaffold post title:string author:belongs_to body:text published:boolean

Configuring it

You can override the default values for templating by placing a .dmd_generator file in your home directory.

Here's an example .dmd_generator:

:templating: erb              # supported options: haml|erb

Developing it

Source is hosted on GitHub: http://github.com/technicalpickles/dmd_generator/tree/master

You can do the usual fork/commit cycle until you have something ready to share. Send pull requests my way.