Rails Generator: Creating Files from Existing Rail Files

Question

I wanted to create a generator that created files (and directories, etc.) based on existing files in the application (for example, views or controllers). So, if we had ideas like this

-app
   -views 
        - layouts
             - application.html.erb
        - users
             - index.html.erb
             - show.html.erb 
             - etc ...

and I wanted to create files based on them that I can make (only with ruby)

directories = Dir.entries("#{Rails.root}/app/views")
directories.each do |directory|
  unless directory == "." or directory == ".."
    files = Dir.entries("#{Rails.root}/app/views/#{directory}")
    files.each do |file|
      unless file == "." or file == ".."
        text = File.read("#{Rails.root}/app/views/#{directory}/#{file}")      
        something #=> whatever else needs to go here to edit the file
        something else #=> output_file.puts whatever
      end
    end
  end
end

so this is basically what I would like to do with the generator so that I can roll my code into a plugin and use it for other applications.

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