Use pry to start rails console without adding to Gemfile

README.md

Tested under Rails 3.1.1

First install gems for pry session, e.g.

gem install pry pry-doc awesome_print bundler

bundler is required so that we can load Gemfile in Rails project.

Then just download rpry file into a directory which is in PATH and make it executable. Go to your Rails project root and run

rpry

Or start in production environment:

rpry production

rpry

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require 'rubygems'
require 'pry'
require 'pry-doc'
require 'awesome_print'

if ARGV.first && !ARGV.first.index("-") && env = ARGV.shift
  ENV['RAILS_ENV'] = %w(production development test).detect {|e| e =~ /^#{env}/} || env
end
ARGV.unshift "console"

APP_PATH = File.expand_path('config/application')
require APP_PATH

module Rails
  class Console
    IRB = ::Pry
  end
end

require 'rails/commands'

Gem rails-console-pry is created from this gist