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Hi Adam, thanks for this awesome tool!

I noticed that in your example blog you name your controllers Posts.index, Posts.new etc, but the generator now uses PostsController.index, PostsController.new.

Which do you plan to use going forward? is there any benefit of one over the other?

Thanks again!

I hope they come soon. This is a cool-looking project for getting started fast on "this shouldn't take long" projects where the first few hours go into routine setup :o

Hi Adam, have you ever considered migration towards a yeoman generator such as https://github.com/Pent/generator-meteor or https://github.com/cmalven/generator-meteor-coffee ?

meteor-generate is still using Meteor.Collection. This still works, but it's not the current API.

When I generated posts page, ran meteor, then visited it in my browser I got the following error:

Couldn't find a template named "posts" or "posts". Are you sure you defined it?

Looking inside the generated files the problem is obvious, e.g. /client/pages/posts/index.html:

<template name='compName'>

<div class='comp-name'>
  <h1>Page: compName</h1>
  <p>Find me in client/pages/compName/index.html</p>
</div>

</template>

The index.html was generated from the version of meteor-generate I installed last week. I will try updating to the most recent version and regenerate everything and see if the error is still there.

Might want to better document how to intall...
https://www.npmjs.com/package/meteor-generate says npm install meteor-generate however I doubt anyone would really ever want to install meteor-generate as a local package. I suspect more likely people should install it a system-global tool with something like sudo install meteor-generate --global

After I installed and tried to run mgen create myproject I got the following error:

module.js:338
    throw err;
          ^
Error: Cannot find module 'coffee-script/register'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:336:15)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:278:25)
    at Module.require (module.js:365:17)
    at require (module.js:384:17)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/meteor-generate/bin/mgen:4:1)
    at Module._compile (module.js:460:26)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:478:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:355:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:310:12)
    at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:501:10)

Of course this was easily fixed by first running sudo npm install coffee-script --global and then repeating mgen create myproject. However I guess this means your package.json is missing a dependency declaration for coffee-script? Had a quick look and looks like coffee-script is there, under "devDependencies". Perhaps it needs to go under "dependencies" instead?

Anyhow, great tool, looking forward to creating some cool Meteor projects with it! :)

npm install -g meteor-generate coffee-script

mgen create example

Creating basic app structure

just hangs forever there.

Did I do something wrong? How long should it take?

Docs say "See wiki page"... but I don't find a wiki and the github wiki link redirects me to the main page, guess there's no wiki pages...

It just noops; is it not actually written, but just documented in the README? It doesn't even give an error.

None of the examples seem to be linked from readme.