Michael Schuerig

The Rails generator script/generate knows pretty well what things it can generate. In fact, it knows much better than I do. So, I think it could really give me some help when I’m typing along on the command line.
If you save the snippet below as /etc/bash_completion.d/generate you can enjoy this help, too.

_generate()
{
local cur

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I’m not yet so enlightened that all of my Rails unit and functional tests run without accessing the database. Indeed, I’m still using YAML fixtures to populate the database for testing.
I also insist on having foreign key constraints in the database, a thing that’s not exactly encouraged by Rails, but which is quite possible nonetheless. [...]