Renaming Ruby on Rails application

Question

Is there a way to rename the application in Rails 2?

Answer 1

I've written the following script to do just that. You can see it also at https://gist.github.com/danielpclark/8dfcdd7ac63149323bbc

#!/usr/bin/ruby
# Rename Rails Project (File: rename_rails)
# Copyright 6ft Dan(TM) / MIT License
# Check the config/application.rb for capital usage in project name by model OldProjectName
# Usage: rename_rails OldProjectName NewAwesomeName

# Replace string instances of project name   
`grep -lR #{ARGV[0]} | xargs sed -i 's/#{ARGV[0]}/#{ARGV[1]}/g'`
`grep -lR #{ARGV[0].downcase} | xargs sed -i 's/#{ARGV[0].downcase}/#{ARGV[1].downcase}/g'`

# Rename Rails directory if it exists
if File.directory?(ARGV[0])
    `mv #{ARGV[0]} #{ARGV[1]}`
    drc = ARGV[1]
elsif File.directory?(ARGV[0].downcase)
    `mv #{ARGV[0].downcase} #{ARGV[1]}`
    drc = ARGV[1]
end

# Delete temporary files (helps prevent errors)
drc ||= ''
if ['cache','pids','sessions','sockets'].all? {
        |direc| File.directory?(File.join(drc,'tmp', direc)) }
    FileUtils.rm_rf(File.join(drc,'tmp'))
end

And I've created a howto video on YouTube. http://youtu.be/dDw2RmczcDA