Tagaholic - Console Update With Your Editor
Rails’ script/console makes it easy to fetch, view and edit your database records. But can you edit those records as quickly as you edit code in your text editor? Riiight, like editing our database records in an editor is gonna happen? It already has.
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Make your Rails console (and irb) output better readable
Pour color on your Rails console with awesome_print. Turn confusing long strings into formatted output. Have objects and classes laid out clearly whenever you need it.
Put `gem 'awesome_print', :g...
Use non-ASCII characters on IRB and Rails consoles with RVM and Mac OS X
If you are using RVM on a Mac and cannot enter 8+ bit characters on an IRB or Rails console, you are missing the readline package. You will need to re-install your Ruby to fix this:
rvm remove ree
rvm package install readline
rvm in...
Your Rails sandbox console
Just found out about a great feature in Rails that seems to be around since Rails 2. Start a console with the --sandbox (or -s) parameter:
rails console --sandbox
All changes you make to the database will be rolled back on ...
has_many :bugs, :through => :rails: Make your shoulda tests faster with fast_context
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Start Rails console or server with debugger
When you require the Ruby debugger to be available from your Rails console (e.g. you want to inspect a method's magic), you need to enable it explicitly:
script/console --debugger
If you cannot access local variables etc, [see this card](/mak...
Beta Blog: Kill Your Signup Form with Rails
Even though the gradual engagement meme has been around for a while, and everyone just hates signup forms, they just seem to keep popping up like a bad habit.
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 ...
Rails always tries to use a layout with the same name as your controller
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This is super convenient except never.
Resolve Aspell errors with your Rails application
If you get an error message like that you are missing the Aspell files a specific language:
No word lists can be found for the language "de"
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sudo apt-get install aspell-de
Upgrading Rails 2 from 2.3.8 through 2.3.18 to Rails LTS
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2.3.8 to 2.3.9
This release has [many minor changes and fi...