http://paulonrails.com/articles/tag/console en-us 40 Paul's thoughts on Rails <p>For some reason I&#8217;m not a big script/console user. Not really sure why but I normally either work with script/server or by running unit tests. However script/console and irb are useful tools, here are a few quick hints.</p> <p><a href="http://pablotron.org/software/wirble/">Wirble</a> this gem adds in some really nice features to both irb and console. Specially nice are persistent history, color syntax highlighting and tab completion.</p> <p><a href="http://www.caliban.org/ruby/rubyguide.shtml#ri">ri</a> I have the web interfaces to <a href="http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/">rdoc</a> and <a href="http://api.rubyonrails.org/">api.rubyrails.org</a> bookmarked. However this can be more convenient. Just use <code>ri classname</code> or <code>ri classname#methodname</code> to get docs on an object. As a nice bonus Wirble adds in ri support to irb/console.</p> <code>reload!</code> should reload in all your model changes within console. This hopefully should reduce the number of times you have to exit out of console. Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:33:00 -0800 urn:uuid:88b94f80-ea5a-44e7-9d91-bf569a930916 Paul Haddad http://paulonrails.com/articles/2007/12/20/quickie-irb-console-hints Hints Hints irb console