How to get generators call other generators in rails 3

Question

I am experimenting with gem development, right now specifically generators. So far I have successfully created two generators that do their job just perfectly. These two generat

Answer 1

Take a look at the scaffold generator that comes with rails.

/Users/XYZ/sources/rails/railties/lib/rails_generator/generators/components/scaffold/scaffold_generator.rb

def manifest
    record do |m|
      #....rest of the source is removed for brevity....
      m.dependency 'model', [name] + @args, :collision => :skip
    end
  end

Here the scaffold generator is using the model generator. So take a look at the dependency method. You can find the API docs for it over here.