This is still very much a work in progress. To improve the infrastructure of rails 3 templates I am working on some infrastructure gems.

Sexy_texer is a gem with a DSL to better enable various automated text file mutations, such as code refactorings etc. which are required in a lot of instances as part of running a template in order to “patch and configure” a program fully for configuration with a framework or sth similar.

Please let me know if there are already good text mutation/code refactoring tools out there which could be useful ;)

Skeleton_generator is a gem for creating skeleton directory structures, also useful in the context of rails3 templates,

My latest Thor enhancements on my Thor fork allow for new use cases… and thor-addon includes some patches for thor internals which improve working with the Gemfile in particular. The Thor-addon gem should be integrated into my Thor fork at some point.