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generate

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generate(what, *args) public

Runs another generator.

generate "scaffold", "Post title:string body:text"
generate "scaffold", "Post", "title:string", "body:text"

The first argument is the generator name, and the remaining arguments are joined together and passed to the generator.

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# File railties/lib/rails/generators/actions.rb, line 332
      def generate(what, *args)
        log :generate, what

        options = args.extract_options!
        options[:abort_on_failure] = !options[:inline]

        rails_command "generate #{what} #{args.join(" ")}", options
      end

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