On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:26 AM, kolargol <[email protected]> wrote: > > Is there some reference manual for console/dbconsole? >
Actually, they are both part of the framework, Rails. script/dbconsole is just a wrapper that reads the database name, username, password etc from the configuration file and launches a SQL console. script/console establishes a standard interactive Ruby (irb) console with the application loaded. This means you can access all classes and objects available in the application and play with them directly. Us Rails people use it in situations where the web GUI doesn't expose the functionality needed to achieve something while still letting the application handle states and callbacks etc. For instance, deleting an object usually involve updating/deleting related objects from the database, which would not happen if you enter raw SQL queries. By using the console, the application behaves just like it would otherwise, so you don't wind up with bad data in the system. Cheers, - Marius
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