http://www.robbyonrails.com/articles/2005/10/03/master-console-and-servant-part-two en-us 40 thoughts.sort_by{|t| t[:topic]}.collect <p>This is a brief addition to the post from a few days ago, <a href="http://www.robbyonrails.com/articles/2005/10/01/master-console-and-servant">Master, console, and servant.</a></p> <p>Noradio on <span class="caps">IRC</span> pointed out one thing that I did not mention in my previous blog entry&#8230; that you can bind a subsession of <code>irb</code> to a specific object. What??</p> <p>Okay, let me explain this a bit more. Instead of always setting a variable to hold an instance of an object, you can be a bit more creative with <code>irb</code>.</p> <p>I present&#8230;</p> <p><img src="http://www.planetargon.com/files/~robby/console_irb_bind_objects.jpg" alt="" /></p> <p>So, for example. You can perform the following in <code>script/console</code>.</p> <typo:code lang="ruby"> irb Model.find(4) name </type:code> <p>If there is an attribute/method called name in your model, then it will call it there. See my screen shot for some more details of how I used the <code>jobs</code> and <code>fg #</code> commands to switch jobs&#8230;. and I even found out what happens when you attempt to switch to the current thread. :-)</p> <p>Until next time&#8230;</p> Mon, 03 Oct 2005 23:54:00 -0500 urn:uuid:9935c416cdd3d27d45838e651ead24ab Robby Russell http://www.robbyonrails.com/articles/2005/10/03/master-console-and-servant-part-two Ruby on Rails Ruby Programming rails ruby console