Resource Cloner

Description

This generator allows you to quickly clone one of your project's existing resources giving it a new name of your choosing. I found myself in need of something like this while working on SqlSearchNSort. While I wanted to reuse the specs I had already written (for test/dummy) to test all the different configuration combinations I found that for each different combo I was forced to create an entirely new model/controller/route-set/set of views for each one. Something like this didn't seem to exist out there. By its very nature it isn't all that DRY because it duplicates existing code and basically renames eveything, but it may come in helpful for configuration testing for your future plugins/gems.

Usage

• add gem 'resource_clone' to your Gemfile
• run rails g resource_clone zombie person [--test-mode=true]

Arguments

Argument	Description	Optional?	Default
#1	singular name of resource to create	No	N/A
#2	singular name of resource to be cloned	No	N/A

Options

Option	Description	Default
--test-mode	When set to true newly generated migrations are not automatically run	false

Resources generated/added

(for example usage: rails g resource_clone zombie person)

Model

• Generates app/models/zombie.rb

Migration

• Generates a new migration file named "#{timestamp}_create_zombies.rb"
• Runs migration if user chooses*.

* Note: If you choose to revoke (destroy) the action later you will need to manually rollback the migration.

Controller

• Generates app/controllers/zombies_controller.rb

Routes

• Adds new lines to config/routes.rb

Views

• Generates any views that person has in app/views/zombies

Testing

• run rake test Note: You may want to manually clean up the routes file after testing. At this point destroy doesn't clean up the injected lines

Possible Enhancements

• Routes
  • Running destroy should clean up the routes file
  • Not cloning resources that are defined as blocks (nesting other resources)
  • Not cloning lines that refer to the resource as singular
  • Definitely missing other formats of drawing routes
• Migration
  • Automatic rollback on destroy
• Currently it does Not clone the following:
  • Tests and Specs
  • Assets
  • Helpers