From 32e184864f6b69f74b90112cd1755ea7a33e5656 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Aditya Kapoor Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 02:33:35 +0530 Subject: [ci skip] add note about the ERB escape in generator docs --- guides/source/generators.md | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) (limited to 'guides/source') diff --git a/guides/source/generators.md b/guides/source/generators.md index 5e88fa0c70..2349908979 100644 --- a/guides/source/generators.md +++ b/guides/source/generators.md @@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ After reading this guide, you will know: * How to see which generators are available in your application. * How to create a generator using templates. * How Rails searches for generators before invoking them. +* How Rails internally generates Rails code from the templates. * How to customize your scaffold by creating new generators. * How to customize your scaffold by changing generator templates. * How to use fallbacks to avoid overwriting a huge set of generators. @@ -340,6 +341,20 @@ end If you generate another resource, you can see that we get exactly the same result! This is useful if you want to customize your scaffold templates and/or layout by just creating `edit.html.erb`, `index.html.erb` and so on inside `lib/templates/erb/scaffold`. +Many scaffold templates in Rails are written in ERB tags which needs to be escaped, so that the output is a valid ERB code, that can be used correctly in Rails app. + +The following code in one of the generator file, + +```ruby +<%%= stylesheet_include_tag :application %> +``` + +when passed through the generator, would generate the following output. + +```ruby +<%= stylesheet_include_tag :application %> +``` + Adding Generators Fallbacks --------------------------- -- cgit v1.2.3