Why are generators not menus or prompts?

[Joe Le Brech]

wouldn't it be more efficient to have a generator ask for column names and types and indexes in a prompt?

or easier at least.

It would be nice to also have ncurses menus for that.

[Jordon Bedwell]

On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 4:42 AM, Joe Le Brech <jleb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> wouldn't it be more efficient to have a generator ask for column names and
> types and indexes in a prompt?

Sure, but this isn't Rails bug tracker, please visit
https://github.com/rails/rails and recommend it there.

> It would be nice to also have ncurses menus for that.

No.

[Joe Le Brech]

I think cakephp does a slightly better job of generators than rails.

[Matt Jones]

On Wednesday, 21 August 2013 05:42:37 UTC-4, Joe Le Brech wrote:

wouldn't it be more efficient to have a generator ask for column names and types and indexes in a prompt?

or easier at least.

Generators will *always* need to accept arguments - it's how (for instance) the resource generator can invoke the model + controller generators.

At that point, adding an ncurses interface is just duplicating functionality. 

--Matt Jones