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

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 🧮

My current ~/.irbrc file which contains lots of helpful things.

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 📌

• https://docs.ruby-lang.org/en/2.2.0/IRB.html
• https://www.justinweiss.com/articles/fast-consistent-setup-for-your-ruby-and-rails-projects/
• https://github.com/kpumuk/dotfiles/blob/master/irbrc

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