Working on getting the generator up and running

Rakefile

@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ begin
     gem.homepage = "http://github.com/formasfunction/remotipart"
     gem.authors = ["Greg Leppert"]
     gem.add_development_dependency "thoughtbot-shoulda", ">= 0"
+    gem.add_dependency 'rails', '3.0.pre'
     # gem is a Gem::Specification... see http://www.rubygems.org/read/chapter/20 for additional settings
   end
   Jeweler::GemcutterTasks.new

lib/generators/remotipart_generator.rb

@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+require 'rails/generators'
+
+class RemotipartGenerator < Rails::Generators::Base
+  def self.source_root
+    File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), 'templates')
+  end
+
+  def install_remotipart
+    copy_file(
+      'jquery.remotipart.js',
+      'public/javascripts/jquery.remotipart.js'
+    )
+  end
+end

lib/generators/templates/jquery.remotipart.js

@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+jQuery(function ($) {
+    $.fn.extend({
+		/**
+	     * Handles execution of remote calls involving file uploads, firing overridable events along the way
+	     */
+	    callRemotipart: function () {
+	        var el      = this,
+	            url     = el.attr('action');
+
+	        if (url === undefined) {
+	          throw "No URL specified for remote call (action must be present).";
+	        } else {
+	            if (el.triggerAndReturn('ajax:before')) {
+					if(url.substr(-3) != '.js') url += '.js'; //force rails to respond to respond to the request with :format = js
+	                el.ajaxSubmit({
+	                    url: url,
+	                    dataType: 'script',
+	                    beforeSend: function (xhr) {
+	                        el.trigger('ajax:loading', xhr);
+	                    },
+	                    success: function (data, status, xhr) {
+							console.log(data);
+	                        el.trigger('ajax:success', [data, status, xhr]);
+	                    },
+	                    complete: function (xhr) {
+	                        el.trigger('ajax:complete', xhr);
+	                    },
+	                    error: function (xhr, status, error) {
+	                        el.trigger('ajax:failure', [xhr, status, error]);
+	                    }
+	                });
+	            }
+
+	            el.trigger('ajax:after');
+	        }
+		},
+		_callRemote: $.fn.callRemote, //store the original rails callRemote
+		callRemote: function(){ //override the rails callRemote and check for a file input
+			if(this.find('input:file').length){
+				this.callRemotipart();
+			} else {
+				this._callRemote();
+			}
+		}
+	});
+
+});

lib/remotipart.rb

@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+module Remotipart
+  def remotipart_return(&block)
+    response.content_type = Mime::HTML
+    content = with_output_buffer(&block)
+    text_area_tag 'remotipart_return', content
+  end
+end
+
+class ActionView::Base
+  include Remotipart
+end

remotipart.gemspec

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+# Generated by jeweler
+# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE DIRECTLY
+# Instead, edit Jeweler::Tasks in Rakefile, and run the gemspec command
+# -*- encoding: utf-8 -*-
+
+Gem::Specification.new do |s|
+  s.name = %q{remotipart}
+  s.version = "0.0.0"
+
+  s.required_rubygems_version = Gem::Requirement.new(">= 0") if s.respond_to? :required_rubygems_version=
+  s.authors = ["Greg Leppert"]
+  s.date = %q{2010-04-08}
+  s.description = %q{Remotipart is a Ruby on Rails gem enabling remote multipart forms (AJAX style file uploads) with jQuery.
+    This gem augments the native Rails jQuery remote form function enabling asynchronous file uploads with little to no modification to your application.
+    It requires jQuery (http://jquery.com), the Rails jQuery driver (http://github.com/rails/jquery-ujs), and the jQuery Form plugin (http://jquery.malsup.com/form/).
+    }
+  s.email = %q{greg@formasfunction.com}
+  s.extra_rdoc_files = [
+    "LICENSE",
+     "README.rdoc"
+  ]
+  s.files = [
+    ".document",
+     ".gitignore",
+     "LICENSE",
+     "README.rdoc",
+     "Rakefile",
+     "VERSION",
+     "lib/remotipart.rb",
+     "test/helper.rb",
+     "test/test_remotipart.rb"
+  ]
+  s.homepage = %q{http://github.com/formasfunction/remotipart}
+  s.rdoc_options = ["--charset=UTF-8"]
+  s.require_paths = ["lib"]
+  s.rubygems_version = %q{1.3.6}
+  s.summary = %q{Remotipart is a Ruby on Rails gem enabling remote multipart forms (AJAX style file uploads) with jQuery.}
+  s.test_files = [
+    "test/helper.rb",
+     "test/test_remotipart.rb"
+  ]
+
+  if s.respond_to? :specification_version then
+    current_version = Gem::Specification::CURRENT_SPECIFICATION_VERSION
+    s.specification_version = 3
+
+    if Gem::Version.new(Gem::RubyGemsVersion) >= Gem::Version.new('1.2.0') then
+      s.add_development_dependency(%q<thoughtbot-shoulda>, [">= 0"])
+    else
+      s.add_dependency(%q<thoughtbot-shoulda>, [">= 0"])
+    end
+  else
+    s.add_dependency(%q<thoughtbot-shoulda>, [">= 0"])
+  end
+end
+