🖥️ Rails Console

🚀 Start Console

bundle exec rails console
# or shorthand
bundle exec rails c

🔍 Explore Schema & Records

Task.column_names       # ["id", "title", "created_at", "updated_at"]
Task.count              # total rows in tasks table

➕ Create Records

Task.create(title: "First Task")

❌ Exit Console

exit

🔄 Reload

reload!                 # Reload app code
my_task.reload          # Reload object from DB

Works only on saved records.

🪄 Last Expression Shortcut

Task.find(1)
_                      # returns last evaluated value