I’ve found (and stolen from others) a number of tricks over time to make life in IRB and the Rails console (which is just IRB…) a bit easier. Here are a few to start.
Saving an object to YAML
Periodically, I need to save an object in YAML form. This does the trick –
`echo "#{User.find(1).to_yaml}" > user.yml`
Explanation: The only real trick here is using the fact that enclosing the statement in backticks (`) tells IRB to treat this as a shell command.
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