Sporkmonger

Well, here’s an interesting mistake I just made. Went to generate a model for a Rails application I’m working on, but I made a typo. Instead of entering:

script/generate model ListedParts

I accidentally typed:

script generate model ListedParts

That of course, didn’t work. It just came back with:

Script started, output file is generate

Sadly, I was unaware of the functionality of script, so of course the first thing I did after that was:

cat generate

3 seconds later, my Powerbook was locked hard, and I had a 200 MB file in my directory.

Oops.