[Nitro] Better diagnostics for gen
gabriele renzi
surrender_it at yahoo.it
Tue Apr 25 07:23:00 EDT 2006
Hi people,
I noticed working on a friend's box that the current exception handling
tends to swallow too much information.
The problem is that in gen/bin/gen the block:
begin
require "gen/#{generator}/gen.rb"
rescue LoadError
puts 'Cannot load the specified generator!'
exit 1
end
won't notice the difference between a non existing generator and a
LoadError raised in the generator file (friend's problem was related to
a corrupted install of facets).
Maybe there could be a more explanative message, i.e.
begin
path="gen/#{generator}/gen.rb"
require path
rescue LoadError =>e
if e.message[/#{path}$/]
reason= %{\tno such generator "#{generator}"}
else
reason= %{\tunmet dependency loading "#{path}":\n\t#{e.message}}
end
puts "Cannot load the specified generator!"
puts reason
exit 1
end
I think spitting out the available generators is not meaningful as of
now, but if Brian's suggestion of model/scaffold generators is going to
be applied I think it would be nice to also show the list in the first
case.
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