Integration of rake tasks and shell commands with Rails generators?

elliottg · September 21, 2009, 6:59am

Just starting to learn about rake and Rails generators… I have a
couple Qs I have yet to find answers to.

Can shell commands somehow be called from a generator’s manifest
method? If so, is that poor form?
Can rake tasks be called from a generator’s manifest method?

Thanks heaps, Elliott

elliottg · September 22, 2009, 4:41pm

Any thoughts on this one?

Thanks, Elliott

elliottg · September 24, 2009, 11:35pm

I found the syntax that makes shell calls from Ruby…

example_shell_command = gem list
puts example_shell_command

Elliott

elliottg · September 30, 2009, 6:00pm

This was a useful post for me on the topic of Ruby and the shell:
http://pasadenarb.com/2007/03/ruby-shell-commands.html