I am in the process of writing several new generators (one of them, SQLiki, is available as an alpha gem) . As I proceed, I am running into a recurring design problem. I’d like users of the generator to be able to rerun it to upgrade when a new version becomes available, without having to do a lot of mucking about in the code. My questions:
Is this a reasonable goal
What’s the best way to go about it?
- Provide “base” models that the user inherits from
- Do “smart” rewriting if the code exists
- Don’t use generators, use _
Thoughts?