Nifty Generators¶ ↑

A collection of useful Rails generator scripts for scaffolding, layout files, authentication, and more.

I forked this because i like the name, i changed nothing but just ADD some generators to copy generators from gems(rails, simple_form, haml_rails, rspec-rails, inherited_resources) to current rails project’s lib/generators for customization, this is especially useful when you scaffolding an admin UI

Setup¶ ↑

Rails 3¶ ↑

Add the gem to your Gemfile.

group :development do
  gem "nifty-generators", github: 'dfang/nifty-generators'
end

Bundle install, then run rails g nifty:install to see help messages

rails g nifty:install                     # Print this message
rails g nifty:install:rails               # This will copy lib/rails/generators in railtie gem to lib/generators
rails g nifty:install:haml_rails          # This will copy lib/generators in haml-rails gem to lib/generators
rails g nifty:install:rspec_rails         # This will copy lib/generators in rspec-rails gem to lib/generators
rails g nifty:install:simple_form         # This will copy lib/generators in simple_form gem to lib/generators
rails g nifty:install:factory_girl_rails  # This will copy lib/generators in factory_girl_rails gem to lib/generators
rails g nifty:install:inherited_resources # This will copy lib/generators in inherited_sources gem to lib/generators

Don’t forget to copy these settings to disable some generator

config.generators do |g|
  g.orm                   false # active_record, set this to false to disable model file generation when scaffold admin ui
  g.template_engine       :haml # erb
  g.test_framework        nil
  g.stylesheets           false
  g.javascripts           false
  g.assets                false
  g.helper                false
  g.jbuilder              false
end