I have posted about my ruby on rails generator that generates generators before. When I created this I did not know the generator code that well. Sadly this is still the case. I used generators for my one task saving me from created a nearly similar files over and over again. But Becker could you have not metaprogramed it? No each model had a common idea and interface but in the end the code was very different. I could have reduced the code and created a mixin for most of the methods, but it's a little late for that. Also I do not think I want to create a mixin for code that should be changing a lot.
Long story shorter I created some generators. I found my self creating another rails app for my websites and I am writing the login code over and over again. I thought why not generate? Then I thought why has someone not done this? But they
have and, each of the generators work. They all have good attributes and bad ones but, none of them are 100% what I wanted. So I am going to make my own login generator. I will post it in my svn when its ok. I also realize the literature on generators is lacking. I also feel that the amount of generators that have been created is very low. It might be the most under used feature in RoR.