Running Rails Console
RubyMine allows you to run the Rails console and interact with your application without leaving the IDE. You can use completion and navigation capabilities, run the console with additional options, and so on.
Before using the Rails console, make sure that the rails gem is installed for your interpreter.Run the Rails console
To run the Rails console in RubyMine, perform the steps below:
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Do one of the following:
Press Ctrl twice, start typing Rails console, select the corresponding item in the popup and press Enter.
From the main menu, go to
.
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In the invoked dialog, select the required environment and press OK.
RubyMine will load the Rails console with the selected project SDK.
Note that the Rails console can be launched on a remote SDK.
Run the console with additional options
After you run the console for the first time, RubyMine creates the dedicated run configuration. If necessary, you can change the created configuration to provide additional options: change the environment, protect the database from changing data, and so on. For example, to use the --sandbox
option to run the console, perform the steps below:
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Open the Run/Debug Configurations dialog in one of the following ways:
Press Ctrl+Shift+A, start typing Edit Configurations, select it from the list and press Enter.
Expand the run/debug configuration selector on the main toolbar and select Edit Configurations.
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In the invoked Run/Debug Configurations dialog, select the created Rails console configuration in the IRB Console group and specify the IRB Arguments option in the following way:
console --sandboxClick OK.
You can now run this configuration and use the Rails console without changing the database.
Run source code from the editor to the console
RubyMine allows you to run source code from the editor in the Rails console. To do this, perform the following steps:
Open the required Ruby file in the editor (if necessary, select a fragment of code to be executed).
On the main menu, choose
, or press Shift+Alt+L.
Productivity tips
- Complete names
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Use basic code completion (Ctrl+Space) to complete names of classes, methods, and so on.
- Navigate through history
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Use the Up and Down arrow keys to scroll through the history of commands, and execute the required ones.
- Navigate to source code
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To navigate to the initial declaration of a symbol and symbol's type, place the caret at the desired symbol and press Ctrl+B.
- View quick documentation
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To get quick information for any symbol or method signature, place the caret at the desired symbol and press Ctrl+Q.