Merge pull request #4860 from carlosantoniodasilva/generators-hide-namespace

Add convenience method to hide a generator from the available ones

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/railties/lib/rails/generators/base.rb b/railties/lib/rails/generators/base.rb
index 8f779316c1..60e94486bb 100644
--- a/railties/lib/rails/generators/base.rb
+++ b/railties/lib/rails/generators/base.rb
@@ -48,6 +48,12 @@ module Rails
         @namespace ||= super.sub(/_generator$/, '').sub(/:generators:/, ':')
       end
 
+      # Convenience method to hide this generator from the available ones when
+      # running rails generator command.
+      def self.hide!
+        Rails::Generators.hide_namespace self.namespace
+      end
+
       # Invoke a generator based on the value supplied by the user to the
       # given option named "name". A class option is created when this method
       # is invoked and you can set a hash to customize it.