From: Michael Schuerig <michael@...>
Date: 2005-06-18T03:40:33+09:00
Subject: Re: [Rails][ANN] BoilerPlate 0.1.0 -- An application skeleton for Ruby on Rails

Carl Youngblood wrote:

> This stuff looks pretty cool. Any chance that it could get included in
> the base rails distribution? Or at least turned into a generator?

It won't be included as that would be against DHH's policy of keeping
Rails slim and general. Incidentally, I agree.

My plan is to package BoilerPlate as a gem and provide a generator. I'm
just not there yet. So far, I haven't got the faintest idea how
generators are implemented and there are things with higher priority.
Anyway, maybe I've got it figured out by the end of this month.

What would you like to see in a generator? What I can think of,
currently, is very little: make an installed BoilerPlate gem available
to the project. Regarding any other tasks, I'm trying to keep the level
of abstraction in the code very high, so that it's easier to write code
directly than generating it.

Anyway, keep your suggestions coming.

Michael

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