rails-generators

SKILL.md

Build production-ready Rails generators that automate repetitive coding tasks and enforce architectural patterns. This skill covers creating custom generators for models, service objects, API scaffolds, and complete features with migrations, tests, and documentation.

Generator location: lib/generators/[name]/[name]generator.rb Template location: lib/generators/[name]/templates/ Test location: test/generators/[name]generatortest.rb

Rails 8 introduced the authentication generator (rails generate authentication) which demonstrates modern generator patterns including:

Create expert-level Ruby on Rails generators for models, services, controllers, and full-stack features. Use when building custom generators, scaffolds, or code generation tools for Rails applications, or when the user mentions Rails generators, Thor DSL, or automated code generation. Source: el-feo/ai-context.

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