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authorDavid N. Welton <davidw@dedasys.com>2010-11-22 16:05:53 +0100
committerDavid N. Welton <davidw@dedasys.com>2010-11-22 16:05:53 +0100
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Explain that NamedBase makes the variable 'name' available to the script.
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@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ class InitializerGenerator < Rails::Generators::NamedBase
end
</ruby>
-First, notice that we are inheriting from +Rails::Generators::NamedBase+ instead of +Rails::Generators::Base+. This means that our generator expects at least one argument, which will be the name of the initializer.
+First, notice that we are inheriting from +Rails::Generators::NamedBase+ instead of +Rails::Generators::Base+. This means that our generator expects at least one argument, which will be the name of the initializer, and will be available in our code in the variable +name+.
We can see that by invoking the description of this new generator (don't forget to delete the old generator file):