Three quick Rails console tips
How to call routes, make requests and try out helpers from the Rails console.
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marco-polo improves your Rails console prompt
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$ rails console
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Yarn: if integrity check won't let you start rails console
I ran into a situation in which I received the yarn integrity check warning when starting the rails console even though everything was up to date and correct versions in use.
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Your Rails sandbox console
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(or -s
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rails console --sandbox
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Make your Rails console (and irb) output better readable
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On the Rails console, assigning an object to a variable can lead to this strange error (without stacktrace):
irb > recipient = Recipient.find(123)
Traceback (most recent call last):
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Fix error: rails console No such file to load -- irb/encoding_aliases.rb (LoadError)
I got this error after upgrading Ruby from 2.4.5 to 2.6.4 when I opened the Rails console - rails server
still worked.
Running via Spring preloader in process 14679
Loading development environment (Rails 5.2.2.1)
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Rails: Invoking a view helper from the console
There are a few ways to access view helpers from the Rails console. The easiest way is the helper
shortcut:
helper.translate 'i18n.string'
helper.your_helper_method
If the desired helper renders a view template, you need this setup:
`...