Do more with rails console by configuring ~/.irbrc 🎉

Rishi Pithadiya — Mon, 22 Jun 2020 04:54:25 +0000

It´s better to wait for a productive programmer to become available than it is to wait for the first available programmer to become productive.
Steve McConnell

What is ~/.irbrc file? 🔖

After work with multiple Rails apps, you might have some methods and preferred ways of working with them.
i.e. you're using few generalized methods or configuration your IRB session(rails console) in a single project and want to have the same methods & configuration on other projects you're working on, you can add those methods & configuration in your ~/.irbrc file.
You can create ~/.irbrc file in your root directory if it's not present.

Things you can include in your ~/.irbrc file 🗄

Configurations which need to be used in all Rails Apps
Methods which need to be used in all Rails Apps
Require/load specific file(s) or Gem(s)
Hacky convenience methods that help you play with your objects

My .irbrc file 🧮

How to search awesome .irbrc file created by other devs 📭

Just click on the following URL and it'll list all ~/.irbrc files created by other GitHub developers, you can create your file and add everything you need if you find anything useful -

https://gist.github.com/search?l=Ruby&q=irbrc

References 📌

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