Effective development with Rails console

Effective development with Rails console is a small and up-to-date book about tricks that you can perform in Rails console. Make your developer life a bit easier with it.

Contents

Inspecting methods

• Finding where the given method was defined

• Rendering the source of method

• Searching for methods

Playing with Active Record

• Sandbox mode

• Execute any SQL query

• Reload current record

• Inspecting tables in the database

Playing with Rails environment

• Inspect helper methods

• Inspect paths

• Inspecting rake tasks

• Reflecting changes in the code

Making work with console more comfortable

• Accessing the last returned value

• Silence SQL logs when executing queries

• Switch the current context

• Inspect any class or object

• Output object in the YAML format

• Temporary alter any method of the object

• Make your own methods available in the console by default

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