Question

I am currently using Rubymine for ruby on rails development.
After enjoying the console for testing purposes, I want to use the console instead of the build-in Rails Generator for creating new models and such.

But I can’t figure out how to use the rails console (Tools | Run Rails Console) for generating -lets say- a new model “user”.

rails generate model user name:string

gives me

NameError: undefined local variable or method `string’ for main:Object

I think I’m just missing something very basic here but I couldn’t come up with a solution by myself after several tries :/
I hope you can help me out.

Greets

Answer 1

If you feel that you really must use the console to do this, you have a few options to get to the system.

You can use backticks.

or

You can use system()

Your command would then look like system("rails generate model user name:string") or it would look like `rails generate model user name:string`