Show directory structure of HelloCookieCutter1 example

[russHyde]

Hi. Having never used cookiecutter before I found the tutorial very helpful.

I did get lost at one point due to storing cookiecutter.json as HelloCookieCutter1/{{cookiecutter.directory_name}}/cookiecutter.json instead of HelloCookieCutter1/cookiecutter.json.

Your tutorial is quite explicit that cookiecutter.json should go in HelloCookieCutter1/, but it still seems a simple mistake to make. cookiecutter itself gave a relatively uninformative error message:

Received error:                                                                               
    A valid repository for "HelloCookieCutter1/" could not be found in the                    
    following locations:                                                                      
    HelloCookieCutter1/                                                                       
    /home/ah327h/.cookiecutters/HelloCookieCutter1/

I was wondering whether you could put words to the effect of

The directory structure of our `cookiecutter` template should now look like this:

HelloCookieCutter1
    - cookiecutter.json
    - {{cookiecutter.directory_name}}
        - {{cookiecutter.file_name}}.py

into the tutorial just before the line "Now we can actually run Cookiecutter and create a new project from our template..."

Happy to submit a PR if you agree. Russ

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On Fri, Dec 7, 2018 at 7:47 AM Russ Hyde [email protected] wrote:

Hi. Having never used cookiecutter before I found the tutorial very helpful.

I did get lost at one point due to storing cookiecutter.json as HelloCookieCutter1/{{cookiecutter.directory_name}}/cookiecutter.json instead of HelloCookieCutter1/cookiecutter.json.

Your tutorial is quite explicit that cookiecutter.json should go in HelloCookieCutter1/, but it still seems a simple mistake to make. cookiecutter itself gave a relatively uninformative error message:

Received error: A valid repository for "HelloCookieCutter1/" could not be found in the following locations: HelloCookieCutter1/ /home/ah327h/.cookiecutters/HelloCookieCutter1/

I was wondering whether you could put words to the effect of

The directory structure of our cookiecutter template should now look like this:

HelloCookieCutter1 - cookiecutter.json - {{cookiecutter.directory_name}} - {{cookiecutter.file_name}}.py

into the tutorial just before the line "Now we can actually run Cookiecutter and create a new project from our template..."

Happy to submit a PR if you agree. Russ

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[michaeljoseph]

cookiecutter has integrated with a git submodule, so we'd still need to make improvements in this repo (or move the tutorial into the cookiecutter repo).