Fix for “Couldn’t find ‘authenticated’ generator”

Here's another little problem I was just hitting and the solution in case it happens to help someone else out there.

If you're trying to use a plugin (in this case the restful_authentication plugin) and you're hitting an error like this when you use ./script/generate:

"Couldn't find 'authenticated' generator"

Check to make sure that you have actually installed the plugin.

In my case, I'd done something like this:

matt@tigger:/work/rails/streetloop$ script plugin install http://svn.techno-weenie.net/projects/plugins/restful_authentication/ Script started, file is plugin matt@tigger:/work/rails/streetloop$

I'd assumed this had installed the plugin, but I don't think it had.

The correct syntax seemed to be this:

script/plugin install restful_authentication

[Note the use of the name of the plugin instead of the URL as before.]

This resulted in much more promising-looking output:

matt@tigger:~/work/rails/streetloop$ script/plugin install restful_authentication

• ./README
• ./Rakefile
• ./generators/authenticated/USAGE
• ./generators/authenticated/authenticated_generator.rb
• ./generators/authenticated/templates/activation.html.erb
• ./generators/authenticated/templates/authenticated_system.rb etc.

Sure enough, with that installed, ./script/generate worked fine.

Hope that helps you too.