AwesomeRailsConsole

This gem was inspired by Using pry in production, jazz_hands and jazz_fingers.

The pros of AwesomeRailsConsole are:

• Less gem dependances (Require infrequent used gems only when you want it)
• Simpler prompt modification (More like the default pry prompt you're familiar with)
• No configurable options at all (You don't need to worry about configuration)

If you really want to do a lot of customization. You may consider just editing your Gemfile, .pryrc and config/initializers/pry.rb. Or fork this project.

Features

Show Rails env and project name in the prompt

Prevents you from accidentally changing production data to the wrong project.

Beautiful formatting with pry and awesome_print

Make it easy to read. Reduce the pain while debugging.

# Try following statements in rails console:
[:apple, :orange, :banana]
{ a: 1, b: 2, c: 3 }
1.methods
(1..100).to_a
ap (1..100).to_a, limit: 5

Print ascii table with Hirb

Helpful for exporting a set of records for documenting.

This only works in development and test mode.

extend Hirb::Console # include the `table` statement
Hirb::View.resize    # resize to your terminal window size

table [1, 2, 3]
table User.last(3), markdown: true

Debugging with pry-byebug

Put following statment (breakpoint) in your code. And execute it.

binding.pry

After entering a pry debug session. Try:

next
step
whereami
continue

Walk the stack with pry-stack_explorer

In a pry debug session. Try:

show-stack
up
down

More

awesome_rails_console depends on following gems. Thus you can use all functionalities they provide.

• pry-rails
• pry-byebug
• pry-stack_explorer
• awesome_print
• hirb
• hirb-unicode

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'awesome_rails_console'

And then execute:

$ bundle

And restart your rails console.

For Ruby 1.9

gem 'awesome_rails_console', github: 'ascendbruce/awesome_rails_console', branch: 'bring-your-own-debugger'
gem 'pry-debugger'

Changelog

See CHANGELOG.md.

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release to create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/ascendbruce/awesome_rails_console/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request