Question

When scaffolding a new tower js app i execute

tower new demo --views jade

but i still get the default CoffeeKup layouts.

Any help with this would be great

Answer 1

This feature hasn’t been implemented yet, only the command line flags have been setup so far. Here are the generator templates:

• lib/tower/server/generator/generators/tower
• lib/tower/server/generator/generators/tower/view/templates

To add this feature all that needs to be done is to wire the command line flags to the viewGenerator.coffee and appGenerator.coffee files:

• view generator script: src/tower/server/generator/generators/tower/view/viewGenerator.coffee#L19
• the generator object gets passed a program variable: src/tower/server/generator.coffee#L20
• and here’s the application generator command parser to see the variables set on the program: src/tower/server/command/new.coffee

So all that needs to be done is modify that viewGenerator.coffee script to something like:

for view in views
  @template "#{view}.coffee", "app/views/#{@view.directory}/#{view}.#{@program.engine}"

I would help implement this but don’t have the time at the moment, working on merging the dev branch to master. Hope that helps.