You should be able to load your fixtures prior to entering console. Like this: RAILS_ENV=test bin/rails db:fixtures:load RAILS_ENV=test bin/rails console However, you still won’t be able to access your fixture data like you would in a test. This simply loads your test database with your fixtures data. So you’d still have to do something like: … Read more
Try putting this in your ~/.irbrc IRB.conf[:USE_AUTOCOMPLETE] = false
Just drop require ‘irb/completion’ in your irbrc. If that doesn’t work try bond, http://tagaholic.me/bond/: require ‘bond’; require ‘bond/completion’ Bond not only improves irb’s completion, http://tagaholic.me/2009/07/22/better-irb-completion-with-bond.html, but also offers an easy dsl for making custom autocompletions.
In irb, File.expand_path(__FILE__)} will just return “#{path you ran irb from}/(irb)”. Which creates a path that doesn’t actually exist. Luckily all file paths are relative to where you ran irb anyway. This means all you need is: load “lib/query.rb” If you want to use the __FILE__ in an actual file, that’s fine, but don’t expect … Read more
You can either use the inspect method: a=[“value1”, “value2”, “value3”] puts a.inspect Or, even better, use the pp (pretty print) lib: require ‘pp’ a=[“value1”, “value2”, “value3”] pp a
You can “run” a file in irb by just requiring or loading it. $ irb >> load ‘./filename.rb’ To change your current working directory within irb, you can use FileUtils: >> require ‘fileutils’ >> FileUtils.pwd # prints working directory >> FileUtils.cd ‘/path/to/somewhere’ # changes the directory
If you don’t want to disable the echo in general you could also call multiple expressions in one command line. Only the last expression’s output will be displayed. big_result(input); 0
You can append ; nil to your statements. Example: users = User.all; nil irb prints the return value of the last executed statement; thus in this case it’ll print only nil since nil is the last executed valid statement.
If you only need to load one file into IRB you can invoke it with irb -r ./your_file.rb if it is in the same directory. This automatically requires the file and allows you to work with it immediately.
The y method is a handy way to get some pretty YAML output. y ProductColor.all Assuming you are in script/console As jordanpg commented, this answer is outdated. For Rails 3.2+ you need to execute the following code before you can get the y method to work: YAML::ENGINE.yamler=”syck” From ruby-docs In older Ruby versions, ie. <= … Read more