console_custom_helpers

🛠️ Custom Console Helpers

You can tailor your Rails console experience by defining helper methods and aliases in your .pryrc or .irbrc. This allows you to speed up repetitive tasks like reloading seed data, clearing cache, or switching contexts without leaving the console. Simply load your Rails environment and define methods at startup.

# ~/.pryrc or ~/.irbrc
if defined?(Rails)
  # Reloads application code and seed data
  def reload_seeds
    Rails.application.reload_routes!
    load Rails.root.join('db', 'seeds.rb')
    puts '✅ Seeds reloaded'
  end

  # Clear Rails cache
  def clear_cache
    Rails.cache.clear
    puts '🗑️  Cache cleared'
  end
end

After restarting the console (rails c), you can simply call reload_seeds or clear_cache to invoke your custom logic.