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David Kong
3,710 Pointsbin/rails generate controller user_friendships
I'm working on the ruby on rails social network module...
I don't understand why I'm typing in bin/rails
I've done a few other rails tutorials before, and I've never done this before when generating models or controllers.
What does it do, and is it necessary?
Will it break my code if i just do rails generate controller user_friendships?
2 Answers
Jim Hoskins
Treehouse Guest TeacherSometimes the globally installed "rails" may not be accessible, in which case there is another copy stored in your project's bin/ directory. As for why Jason used bin/rails ... instead of rails ... I'm not sure of the exact reason.
You should be fine to use "rails" in stead of "bin/rails", unless there is some detail I am unaware of, which is entirely possible. I'll ask Jason.
Jason Seifer
Treehouse Guest TeacherIn an earlier lesson, we run the bundler command with the "--binstubs" flag. This sets up our project with a "bin" directory which contains executable files that run the commands specific to the application and ignore other gems. This is useful if we have more than one version of Ruby or the gems installed which is a possibility on any system, especially since Mac OS X comes with an out of date Ruby and Rails installed.
It's the same running "bundle exec" before each command. Check out the bundle-exec page for more information: