Rails Tip #1: Use Pry Instead of irb for the Rails Console
This tip is going to be a really short one. Hopefully by now you’ve
heard about pry - a fantastic irb
replacement, that somewhat reminds me of the mighty Lisp REPLs. What
you might not know is how to hook it into Rails so that the rails
console (a.k.a. rails c) command would fire a pry shell instead of
an irb one. There are several ways to do so, but I find one
particularly straightforward - the awesome little gem
pry-rails.
So what are you waiting for? Go ahead, install the little sucker and enjoy your new pry-powered Rails console.