How to change source for a custom rails generator? (Thor)

Question

I\'m making a custom generator that generates a new rails app, and I do it like this

require \'thor\'
require \'rails/generators/rails/app/app_generator\'

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Answer 1

Thor will access your source_paths method and add these to the defaults:

  # Returns the source paths in the following order:
  #
  #   1) This class source paths
  #   2) Source root
  #   3) Parents source paths
  #
  def source_paths_for_search
    paths = []
    paths += self.source_paths
    paths << self.source_root if self.source_root
    paths += from_superclass(:source_paths, [])
    paths
  end

So all you need to do in your class is:

class NewgemGenerator < Thor::Group

  include Thor::Actions

  def source_paths
    ['/whatever', './templates']
  end

end

Hope this helps :)