Generators can be a helpful tool in writing idiomatic elixir code quickly. Why not take things a step further and make a generator for generators?

Degenerator takes a module that you give it and creates a generator for that module.

While this is in ealry stages, this will be available on github:

def deps do
  [
    {:degenerator, github: "baradoy/degenerator", only: :dev}
  ]
end

Or you can install it through mix archive:

mix archive.install github baradoy/degenerator

You can create a generator from an existing module with:

mix degenerator --module MyProject.MyModule --generator degenerator.gen.my_generator

Subsequent runs of degenerator will add to the new module template to the existing generator.

• A big refactor to organize code and reduce complexity and add tests
• Support module names with prefix or suffixes such as `MyProjectWeb.MyModuleController,
• Supoport conditional sections, i.e. --no-schema

• The generators that are created rely on Phoenix.Mix as at least a dev dependancy.
• This might not work with umbrella projects in the slightest.

• Does not detect ProjectWeb correctly