Suggestion: Merging Rails application templates with generator functionality

rubyonrails-talk
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Been working a bit lately on implementing Rails app. templates and generators. It is clear there is a lot of overlap and that features from generators could be used in app. templates and vice versa. I will try to port some of the generator features such as the template function (executing an .erb file and saving the resulting content as a file in a specific location) to be used with app. templates, perhaps as an app. templates extension (gem?).

What do you think? Is this already possible and convenient by other means?

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As I understand it, Rails 3 is making generators and app templates work on the same code base.

<http://caffeinedd.com/guides/331-making-generators-for-rails-3-with-thor&gt; <http://benscofield.com/2009/09/application-templates-in-rails-3/&gt;