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♥ .railsrc / rails console snippets

11 months ago by Jan Lelis on J-_-L.
13 Rails-specific hints for your rails 3 console. .railsrc – how to load it? The .railsrc file should only be loaded in Rails enviroments. Put the...

Small Ruby CLI Improvements (Part 4): Edit Ruby Objects Using yaml

12 months ago by Jan Lelis on J-_-L.
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Small Ruby CLI Improvements (Part 3): Hirb vs. Unicode

12 months ago by Jan Lelis on J-_-L.
Hirb: “A mini view framework for console/irb that’s easy to use, even while under its influence. Console goodies include a no-wrap table, auto-pager, tree...

Small Ruby CLI Improvements (Part 2): Wirb!

~1 year ago by Jan Lelis on J-_-L.
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Small Ruby CLI Improvements (Part 1): Command-line Regex Debugging

~1 year ago by Jan Lelis on J-_-L.
This little method (now also available in zucker/debug) is useful for understanding and creating regexes: Listing 1 /45/regexp_visualize.rb class...

ripl: Why should you use an irb alternative?

~1 year ago by Jan Lelis on J-_-L.
What does it mean when the guy who blogged about irb’s details and wrote most of the successful irb gems (hirb, bond, boson) decides to implement...

Use fresh Ruby as your shell!

~1 year ago by Jan Lelis on J-_-L.
We love Ruby. And we love the command line. So… the shell needs to be rubyfied ;). Fresh is a new gem, trying to achieve this. Updated for freshFres...

IRB rockets and colors

over 1 year ago by Jan Lelis on J-_-L.
Introducing the fancy_irb gem: Use fancy colors! You can colorize the prompts, irb errors, stderr and stdout Output results as Ruby comments Enhance...

Tutorial: Build your own password safe with Ruby!

over 1 year ago by Jan Lelis on J-_-L.
There are many implementations of password managers/safes out there. But lots of them are black boxes, either because they are not open source, or because...

irbtools / Release the power of irb!

over 1 year ago by Jan Lelis on J-_-L.
Equipped with some tools discussed at the germany.rb user group meetup, I’ve played around with my ~/.irbrc and put together a little meta gem for...