Rails core - Jan 2010 - Discovered potential rails 3 error: lib/rails/generators.rb:269 - undefined method `application' for Rails:Module

When I run the generator as script/generate it works, but when I use
my executable calling the same controller it breaks. I have seen this
kind of error in other instances where I was able to fix it inside the
generator, but in this case the error seems to stem from a dependency
on rails internals?

269        return if defined?(@generators_from_railties) ||
Rails.application.nil?

I think that in this context for some reson Rails.application is not
defined!?

I have been installing this gem and running the executable
nifty_controller defined within this gem

http://github.com/kristianmandrup/very_nifty_generators
---

kristian-mandrups-macbook-pro:r3_test kristianconsult$ script/generate
nifty:controller cat
      create  app/controllers/cats_controller.rb
      invoke  erb
      create    app/views/cat
      invoke  test_unit
      create    test/functional/cat_controller_test.rb
       error  helper [not found]
kristian-mandrups-macbook-pro:r3_test kristianconsult$
nifty_controller dog
      create  app/controllers/dogs_controller.rb
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/railties-3.0.pre/lib/rails/
generators.rb:269:in `load_generators_from_railties!'': undefined
method `application'' for Rails:Module (NoMethodError)
	from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/railties-3.0.pre/lib/rails/
generators.rb:232:in `lookup''
	from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/railties-3.0.pre/lib/rails/
generators.rb:141:in `find_by_namespace''
	from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/railties-3.0.pre/lib/rails/
generators/base.rb:331:in `prepare_for_invocation''
	from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/railties-3.0.pre/lib/rails/
vendor/thor-0.12.3/lib/thor/group.rb:159:in
`_invoke_from_option_template_engine''
	from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/railties-3.0.pre/lib/rails/
vendor/thor-0.12.3/lib/thor/task.rb:32:in `run''
	from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/railties-3.0.pre/lib/rails/
vendor/thor-0.12.3/lib/thor/invocation.rb:108:in `block in invoke''
	from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/railties-3.0.pre/lib/rails/
vendor/thor-0.12.3/lib/thor/invocation.rb:117:in `each''
	from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/railties-3.0.pre/lib/rails/
vendor/thor-0.12.3/lib/thor/invocation.rb:117:in `map''
	from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/railties-3.0.pre/lib/rails/
vendor/thor-0.12.3/lib/thor/invocation.rb:117:in `invoke''
	from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/railties-3.0.pre/lib/rails/
vendor/thor-0.12.3/lib/thor/group.rb:35:in `block in start''
	from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/railties-3.0.pre/lib/rails/
vendor/thor-0.12.3/lib/thor/base.rb:354:in `start''
	from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/railties-3.0.pre/lib/rails/
vendor/thor-0.12.3/lib/thor/group.rb:28:in `start''
	from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/very_nifty_generators-0.1.2/
bin/nifty_controller:28:in `<top (required)>''
	from /opt/local/bin/nifty_controller:19:in `load''
	from /opt/local/bin/nifty_controller:19:in `<main>''
kristian-mandrups-macbook-pro:r3_test kristianconsult$

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The solution was to add require ''rails'' to my executable. But
I still
see it as an odd edge case and a bit of a "hack"...

nifty_controller
--
#!/user/local/bin/ruby
...
require ''rails''  <<<<
require ''rails/generators''
require ''generators/nifty/controller/controller_generator''

Nifty::Generators::ControllerGenerator.start

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