Description:
Adds a new RecordLoader and all necessary files. --record-class Typically a loader is named after the class it creates, but if you want to override this, you can specify a different ActiveRecord class name with the record-class option. This functionality is purely for convenience, and will change the class names used in the record loader, and associated specs. If your loader is more complicated, and will create records of multiple classes then you can ignore this setting and make the relevant modifications to lib/record_loader/xxx_loader.rb and spec/lib/record_loader/xxx_loader_spec.rb manually. --record-key By default the generator creates a simple loader that checks for a record based on the value of a particular attribute, and it it doesn't exists, creates it using the attributes specified in the yaml file. You can specify which attribute gets used by specifying record-key, by default it uses name.
Example:
rails generate record_loader MyThing This will generate a RecordLoader named MyThingLoader, a rake task to trigger it, specs and example yaml files. On first usage this will create: lib/record_loader/application_record_loader.rb lib/tasks/record_loader.rake It will also create: config/record_loader/my_things/default_records.yml lib/record_loader/my_thing_loader.rb lib/record_loader/tasks/record_loader/my_thing.rake spec/data/record_loader/my_things/two_entry_example.yml spec/lib/record_loader/my_thing_loader_spec.rb