Wrapping Up
In this chapter, we finished our discussion about Rails’s rendering stack by building a few template handlers. Our main template handler with the merb extension mixes Markdown with ERB, allowing it to render both HTML and plain-text parts in an email by using just one template.
At the end of the chapter, we created a generator and customized Rails to use our new template handler by default. There is much more to discover in the Generators API. Besides the methods seen in this chapter, Thor::Actions defines copy_file, inject_into_file, create_file, run, and a few more. In addition, Rails has a module called Rails::Generators::Actions that provides methods specific to Rails, such as gem, environment, route, and many others. Rails ...
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