On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 11:13 PM, Craig White <craigwhite@azapple.com> wrote:

Then of course, you can simply open an irb and test out a section of
code without having to deal with a web browser, apache etc.

Then there is the real hidden gem of Rails... the Rails console. You can call an IRB shell from your rails environment that will automatically load all your data objects from your project automatically. AWESOME!

And then lets not forget rake! I have never seen an environment that allows you to develop in flat files, test in MySQL/Postgres, then deploy in Oracle. I have seen promises of it, but never seen it work outside of Rails.

I find myself manipulating data in a db using the irb console rather
than phpmyadmin or mysql shell because it is so much easier to
loop/iterate/replace/save.

You jerk, you know I am now going to have to waste half a day playing with this idea.　ha ha. Never thought of doing that!

Kevin