Hi all,
I''m happy to announce a new acts_as gem, acts_as_shellable.
If you find yourself constantly using script/console or another shell interface
to
rails, then this gem''s for you.
This gem''s homepage is at http://www.chwhat.com/projects/shellable
The docs are at http://chwhat.com/projects/shellable/doc/index.html
You can install the gem the rubygem way: ''gem install
acts_as_shellable''
Here''s a brief excerpt from the docs: [%
This mixin provides methods to make ActiveRecord::Base classes more usable from
the commandline.
This is done by providing a shorthand syntax for creating and querying tables
with aliases for column
names and associations. There is a strong emphasis of being able to perform
actions with one table
in mind by syntactically treating associated columns as normal columns.
This gem can be used in irb (script/console) or a rails application (or anywhere
ActiveRecord::Base
is used). For you irb lovers, Ive included a neat irb modificiation that
automatically formats
output based on a hash, mapping output type to a formatting subroutine (see
examples/irb_modified.rb
for details). With this slight modification, its possible to at least view a
tables records in a
readable way. To use this modification, require examples/irb-shellrc. To setup a
simple database
shell via rails, require examples/rails-shellrc and follow its instructions.
]
This gem is well documentated and hope to hear from others who use
ActiveRecord::Base the same way I do.
Enjoy,
Gabriel
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