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lookup

Ruby on Rails latest stable (v7.1.3.2) - 0 notes - Class: Rails::Generator::Lookup::ClassMethods

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This method is deprecated or moved on the latest stable version. The last existing version (v2.3.8) is shown here.

These similar methods exist in v7.1.3.2:

lookup(generator_name) public

Lookup knows how to find generators’ Specs from a list of Sources. Searches the sources, in order, for the first matching name.

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# File railties/lib/rails_generator/lookup.rb, line 124
        def lookup(generator_name)
          @found ||= {}
          generator_name = generator_name.to_s.downcase
          @found[generator_name] ||= cache.find { |spec| spec.name == generator_name }
          unless @found[generator_name] 
            chars = generator_name.scan(/./).map{|c|"#{c}.*?"}
            rx = /^#{chars}$/
            gns = cache.select{|spec| spec.name =~ rx }
            @found[generator_name] ||= gns.first if gns.length == 1
            raise GeneratorError, "Pattern '#{generator_name}' matches more than one generator: #{gns.map{|sp|sp.name}.join(', ')}" if gns.length > 1
          end
          @found[generator_name] or raise GeneratorError, "Couldn't find '#{generator_name}' generator"
        end

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