Rails console shortcuts, tips, and tricks

Rails new application-name

A well-known command in rails used to create new rails application.

Examples:

• rails new -d postgreSQL — This will make Postgres as your application database
• rails new –skip-test — This will skip your test files creation
• rails new –api — For only API applications
• rails new –skip-javascript — This will skip your JavaScript files

Rails server

By default rails come with one web server, this web server may vary depends upon the rails versions, Currently, the latest rails version uses puma.

Examples:

rails s -e production -p 3001

rails s -e development -p 3002

Rails generate

This command will help you to create assets, controllers, models, migrations, helpers, jobs, mailers, test files, scaffold, tasks.

Clearing theConsole

To get a clean slate in your console, use Command + K on the Mac.

Reloading theConsole

reload! a command to pick up the latest version of your code:

>> reload! Reloading… => true

Autocompleting

console has autocompletion support.
Suppose you have a Article model that you previously used in the console and now you want to use it to run a query. Start by typing Art and then hit Tab:

>> Art<Tab>>>> Article.w<Tab>

Now hit Tab a second time and you’ll get a list of valid completions:

>> Article.w<Tab><Tab> Article.where ,  Article.with_scope,  Article.with_exclusive_scope Article.with_warnings,  Article.with_options

Trying Out ViewHelpers

>> helper.pluralize(702, ‘7th floor, mangalam fun square’) => “702 7th floor, mangalam fun squares” >> helper.number_to_currency(10.50) => “$10.50” >> helper.truncate(“Pradeep Chauhan”, length: 12) => “Pradeep C…”>> helper.title_tag(User.first) => “<title>Pradeep Chauhan</title>”

Trying Out RouteHelpers

>> app.articles_path => “/articles” >> app.article_path(Article.first) => “/articles/1”

Use the helper and the app objects together, and you can generate links in the console:

>> helper.link_to(“Articles”, app.articles_path) => “<a href=”/articles”>Articles</a>”

Issuing Requests Interactively

The best part is that no browser or server is required.

>> app.get “/articles” => 200 >> app.get “/articles/178” => 302>> app.post “/session”, email: ‘[email protected]’, password: ‘****’ => 302

Playing in theSandbox

Sometimes we need to experiment with data in the console without the fear of permanently changing data

$ rails console — sandbox Loading development environment in sandbox Any modifications you make will be rolled back on exit >>

>> User.destroy(1)  >> User.find(1) ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound: Could not find User with id=1  >> exit    (12.3ms)  ROLLBACK

The user was successfully deleted, but notice that the database transaction got rolled back after the exit

Rails stat

This command will help you to find out the statistics of your application code. It will display the number of classes, number of lines, number of methods your controllers, models, helpers, workers, mailers using.