diff --git a/.github/workflows/openapi-generate.yml b/.github/workflows/openapi-generate.yml
index 824ac5c7..ceec9de5 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/openapi-generate.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/openapi-generate.yml
@@ -12,15 +12,8 @@ jobs:
     - uses: actions/checkout@v4
     - name: Set up system
       run: sudo apt install -y xq
-    - id: openapi-version
-      name: Detect openapi-generator-cli version
-      run: |
-        version=`wget https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/openapitools/openapi-generator-cli/maven-metadata.xml -O - | xq -x "//metadata/versioning/latest"`
-        echo "version=$version" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-    - name: Set up openapi-generator-cli
-      run: wget https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/openapitools/openapi-generator-cli/${{ steps.openapi-version.outputs.version }}/openapi-generator-cli-${{ steps.openapi-version.outputs.version }}.jar -O openapi-generator-cli.jar
     - name: OpenAPI Generate
-      run: java -jar openapi-generator-cli.jar generate --input-spec https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/refs/heads/main/api/openapi-spec/swagger.json --skip-validate-spec --generator-name ruby --config .openapi-config.json
+      run: bin/openapi-generate
     - name: Create Pull Request
       uses: peter-evans/create-pull-request@v7
       with:
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 7fb66bdd..d3abda29 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 /coverage/
 /Gemfile.lock
 /InstalledFiles
+/openapi-generator-cli*.jar
 /pkg/
 /spec/reports/
 /spec/examples.txt
diff --git a/.openapi-generator-ignore b/.openapi-generator-ignore
index 7484ee59..5f2771c4 100644
--- a/.openapi-generator-ignore
+++ b/.openapi-generator-ignore
@@ -21,3 +21,8 @@
 #docs/*.md
 # Then explicitly reverse the ignore rule for a single file:
 #!docs/README.md
+
+.gitlab-ci.yml
+.gitignore
+.travis.yml
+Gemfile
diff --git a/bin/openapi-generate b/bin/openapi-generate
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..c9e86b30
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bin/openapi-generate
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+# Detect the latest version of the openapi-generator-cli package
+version=`wget https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/openapitools/openapi-generator-cli/maven-metadata.xml -O - 2>/dev/null | xq -x "//metadata/versioning/latest"`
+
+# Download the openapi-generator-cli jar if we don't already have it locally
+if [[ ! -f openapi-generator-cli-$version.jar ]]
+then
+  echo "Downloading 'openapi-generator-cli-$version.jar'..."
+  wget https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/openapitools/openapi-generator-cli/$version/openapi-generator-cli-$version.jar
+fi
+
+# Clear out any existing files in paths that are autogenerated to prevent deleted files
+# from remaining after running the generate
+rm -rf ./docs ./lib ./spec
+
+# Generate the kubevirt gem from the current openapi-spec
+java -jar openapi-generator-cli-$version.jar generate --input-spec https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/refs/heads/main/api/openapi-spec/swagger.json --skip-validate-spec --generator-name ruby --config .openapi-config.json