Ruby on Rails: Reload Script/Console Without Restarting

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Created: Dec 06, 2006     Updated: Dec 07, 2006


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When you are testing your rails application using script/console, you have to stop and start the console to test changes to your model objects. This recipe shows you the easy way to reload the console.

If you are using windows, you start the console by using this command:

ruby script\console

Linux:

./script/console


Just use the following command whenever you make changes to your model objects:

reload!


Here's an example:

?> reload!
Reloading…
=> [Article, User, ApplicationController]
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