Every time you find yourself typing something long and repetitive, automate it. Every time.
I often hop into script/console, so aliasing that is a no-brainer. That is
not the point of this post, though; I also often look up my current user when
I’m in script/console, and I get tired of typing my email address every time.
Add a method into your ~/.irbrc to make that painless, too.
[~/dev/railsapp] alias sc
sc=script/console
[~/dev/railsapp] tail -n 3 ~/.irbrc
def me
User.find_by_email 'jmorrison@thoughtbot.com'
end
[~/dev/railsapp] sc
Loading development environment (Rails 2.3.3)
>> me
SQL (0.2ms) SET NAMES 'utf8'
SQL (0.1ms) SET SQL_AUTO_IS_NULL=0
User Columns (2.7ms) SHOW FIELDS FROM `users`
User Load (60.1ms) SELECT * FROM `users` WHERE (`users`.`email` =
'jmorrison@thoughtbot.com') LIMIT 1
=> #<User id: 1, name: "Jason Morrison", email: "jmorrison@thoughtbot.com">