Make your Rails console (and irb) output better readable

Pour color on your Rails console with awesome_print Show archive.org snapshot . Turn confusing long strings into formatted output. Have objects and classes laid out clearly whenever you need it.

Put gem 'awesome_print', :group => :development into your Gemfile. Now on the Rails console you have the command ap that will give you a colored, formatted output of whatever you pass it. See the example output of the User class below.

For customization visit the repository on Github.

Remark

Note that there are other ways to print data in a structured way. Ruby's pretty-print library pp handles formatted printing (you might need to require 'pp'). Pry Show archive.org snapshot will give you a readable output, too. If it's already used in your project, you probably won't need to use awesome_print either.