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Justin Searls

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What's a framework feature you probably ought to use but you nevertheless avoid?

For me, it's file generators. I can barely remember why, but with the sole exception of database migrations I never take advantage of any of Rails' generator commands.

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Emmanuel Cousin

I used to generate scaffolds, models and controllers a lot when I was a junior developer. I read the Agile Development with Rails 4.2 from The Pragmatic Bookshelf and it was telling me to do it 🙂

Then I figured it was generating too much stuff for me and I was taking more time to cut code after using generators than when I was creating whatever I needed manually.

Like, when you generate a controller, it also generates a helper, and a test file for each, but they're not the ones you want by default if you use Rspec, etc.

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Steven Harman

@searls Same. I think it started b/c I wanted to be more intentional about the code (liability) I was creating. And then it got to the point where creating new Rails-generatable things is either so rare, or so simple to by hand, that it wasn't worth remembering the syntax for the generators. 🤷

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