instance method `generate`

Ruby on Rails 8.1.2

Since v3.0.20

Available in: v3.0.20 v3.1.12 v3.2.22.5 v4.0.13 v4.1.16 v4.2.9 v5.2.8.1 v6.0.6 v6.1.7.10 v7.0.10 v7.1.6 v7.2.3 v8.0.4 v8.1.2

Compare with:

generate(what, *args)

Runs another generator.

generate "scaffold", "Post title:string body:text"
generate "scaffold", "Post", "title:string", "body:text"

The first argument is the generator name, and the remaining arguments are joined together and passed to the generator.

Parameters

what req
args rest

Source

# File railties/lib/rails/generators/actions.rb, line 332
      def generate(what, *args)
        log :generate, what

        options = args.extract_options!
        options[:abort_on_failure] = !options[:inline]

        rails_command "generate #{what} #{args.join(" ")}", options
      end

Defined in railties/lib/rails/generators/actions.rb line 332 · View on GitHub · Improve this page · Find usages on GitHub

Defined in Rails::Generators::Actions

Signature

Parameters