From dc8957a077396e419f5e1ec4dfddf65b1aa52227 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Les Nightingill <codehacker@comcast.net>
Date: Sat, 26 May 2012 09:53:16 -0700
Subject: add small note about how to get the full list of options for rails
 plugin new

---
 guides/source/engines.textile | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

(limited to 'guides/source/engines.textile')

diff --git a/guides/source/engines.textile b/guides/source/engines.textile
index c35305a822..86e7254201 100644
--- a/guides/source/engines.textile
+++ b/guides/source/engines.textile
@@ -36,6 +36,12 @@ To generate an engine with Rails 3.1, you will need to run the plugin generator
 $ rails plugin new blorgh --full --mountable
 </shell>
 
+The full list of options for the plugin generator may be seen by typing:
+
+<shell>
+$ rails plugin --help
+</shell>
+
 The +--full+ option tells the plugin generator that you want to create an engine (which is a mountable plugin, hence the option name), creating the basic directory structure of an engine by providing things such as the foundations of an +app+ folder, as well a +config/routes.rb+ file. This generator also provides a file at +lib/blorgh/engine.rb+ which is identical in function to an application's +config/application.rb+ file.
 
 The +--mountable+ option tells the generator to mount the engine inside the dummy testing application located at +test/dummy+ inside the engine. It does this by placing this line in to the dummy application's +config/routes.rb+ file, located at +test/dummy/config/routes.rb+ inside the engine:
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