Today I had my first look at rails 3.0.pre and below are the sequence of steps I had to take to create a rails 3.0.pre application, and get it's generators to work.
 
Why was I looking at the top-secret, yet open-source Rails 3.0? Their generators are being migrated over to Thor and I wanted to see t

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class HomeController < ApplicationController
  def index
    if (@target_url = params["url"]) && !@target_url.blank?

# Temporary middleware for your APIs to immediately support a /v1/some/path.json prefix to
# all route calls. 
#

      task :release => ["git:tag", "git:auto_push"]
      
      task :auto_push do

$ rake test
X....F.
.X...F.

task :test do
  puts <<-EOS.gsub(/^  /, '')
  X....F.

rake check_manifest        # debug   # Verify the manifest.
rake clean                 #         # Clean up all the extras.
rake config_hoe            # debug   # Create a fresh ~/.hoerc file.

(in /Users/drnic/newproj)
rake announce              # publish # Announce your release.
rake audit                 # test    # Run ZenTest against the package.

#!/usr/bin/env ruby -rubygems
 
require 'restclient'

# Enable Webrat's Selenium mode if one or more scenarios is tagged @selenium
Webrat.configure do |config|
  config.mode = :rails

/Sites/pharmmd[master]$ script/generate
Usage: script/generate generator [options] [args]
 

        <form action="/admin/document_templates/2" class="formtastic document_template" id="edit_document_template_2" method="post"><div style="margin:0;padding:0;display:inline"><input name="_method" type="hidden" value="put" /><input name="authenticity_token" type="hidden" value="WtzaApkH5wvC/V4ey9g0BTwN80fkgVyh4F5aGj6qC64=" /></div>
          
          <li class="string required" id="document_template_name_input"><label for="document_template_name">Name<abbr title="required">*</abbr></label><input id="document_template_name" maxlength="255" name="document_template[name]" size="50" type="text" value="Follow Up Letter" /></li>

$ time cucumber features/ --format=progress
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Little bush babies   
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require("spec_helper.js");
require("../../public/javascripts/add_data.js");
 

			<string>DC4D5C6F-80DA-4FDF-815F-EEF68C1FC3E9</string>
			<string>67262491-0033-4FF6-9AB7-46187500012D</string>
			<string>------------------------------------</string>

class Food
  def to_s
    "Food is great"