Add --old-style-hash option to force creating old style hash on Ruby 1.9

That means if you don't like the new syntax, you can pass --old-style-hash to force Rails to generate code with hash rockets.

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/railties/lib/rails/generators/named_base.rb b/railties/lib/rails/generators/named_base.rb
index 3d19b372ff..36bc9e055c 100644
--- a/railties/lib/rails/generators/named_base.rb
+++ b/railties/lib/rails/generators/named_base.rb
@@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ module Rails
       class_option :skip_namespace, :type => :boolean, :default => false,
                                     :desc => "Skip namespace (affects only isolated applications)"
 
+      class_option :old_style_hash, :type => :boolean, :default => false,
+                                    :desc => "Force using old style hash (:foo => 'bar') on Ruby >= 1.9"
+
       def initialize(args, *options) #:nodoc:
         # Unfreeze name in case it's given as a frozen string
         args[0] = args[0].dup if args[0].is_a?(String) && args[0].frozen?
@@ -185,7 +188,7 @@ module Rails
         # Returns Ruby 1.9 style key-value pair if current code is running on
         # Ruby 1.9.x. Returns the old-style (with hash rocket) otherwise.
         def key_value(key, value)
-          if RUBY_VERSION < '1.9'
+          if options[:old_style_hash] || RUBY_VERSION < '1.9'
             ":#{key} => #{value}"
           else
             "#{key}: #{value}"