Having a generator option alone makes it hard to take advantage of future updates without squashing any changes you may have made to the generated files in the meantime. A Rails engine pattern could help give this and still allow for a generator for non-Rails apps. It would also mean that we could set up a dummy app for CI to actually run the bundled tests.
Another option or baby step could be to vendor the generated files to discourage changes being made to them directly.
Having a generator option alone makes it hard to take advantage of future updates without squashing any changes you may have made to the generated files in the meantime. A Rails engine pattern could help give this and still allow for a generator for non-Rails apps. It would also mean that we could set up a dummy app for CI to actually run the bundled tests.
Another option or baby step could be to vendor the generated files to discourage changes being made to them directly.