marco-polo improves your Rails console prompt
MarcoPolo shows your app name and environment in your console prompt so you don't accidentally break production
Officially supporting IRB (standard rails console) and pry (via pry-rails gem).
Example:
$ rails console
Loading development environment (Rails 4.2.1)
agencyapp(dev)>
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