Rails generate doesn't work anymore?

1

Hi there,

I can’t use rails generate (or rails g) command anymore. I’ve got a lot of options but no generate options seems to be possible anymore. I’m on rails 6.0.3.4.

Do I miss something here?

Thanks.

2

When you are issuing these commands, is your terminal “in” a Rails project directory? The rails g(enerate) command is only active and usable when you are in a Rails project. rails new should work everywhere.

Walter

3

Hi,

Of course I’m in a rails project. Rails new is not a problem but when I use rails generate or g (in a rails project) it outputs me a help page with all the possible commands. But the generate option isn’t visible. I’ve just upgraded rails and removed my “test” project and created it again within a dos terminal (not powershell) and it works properly. Strange behaviour. It’s solved in the meantime thanks.

4

Okay, then, can you repeat this in an absolutely new rails project that you just created? Are you using any of the dozens of flags when you create the new project? I can’t recall there being an option to disable generators, but hey, maybe that’s one of the options??? Usually, you will only see the wall of text if you try to run a rails command (besides new) outside of a rails project. If you try to run rails generate without arguments, or with a malformed argument, you’ll usually get an error or stack trace.

What version of rails do you see when you type rails -v all by itself?

Walter

5

Huh? I’ve never seen rails g by itself produce anything but a usage page, e.g.:

08:31 ~/testcases/rails/rails-6/samurai:(main) $ rails g
Usage: rails generate GENERATOR [args] [options]
...

P.S. Generating a scaffold on a fresh install (Ruby 2.7.2, Rails 6.1.2) as above works as expected here.

6

[quote=“soufianta McDVOICE”]

Hi there,

I can’t use rails generate (or rails g) command anymore. I’ve got a lot of options but no generate options seems to be possible anymore. I’m on rails 6.0.3.4.

Do I miss something here?

Thanks. [/quote]

I tried all of this and it didn’t work for me. Turns out that I had a bad rails file in my /bin folder.

This is what I had:

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
begin
  load File.expand_path("../spring", __FILE__)
rescue LoadError
end
require 'bundler/setup'
load Gem.bin_path('rails', 'rails')

And I just recreated a new rails app and copied the proper one:

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
begin
  load File.expand_path("../spring", __FILE__)
rescue LoadError
end
APP_PATH = File.expand_path('../../config/application', __FILE__)
require_relative '../config/boot'
require 'rails/commands'

This worked for me!