#280 Pry with Rails

$ gem install pry pry-doc

$ rvm gemset use global
$ gem install pry pry-doc

$ pry
pry(main)> 1 + 2
=> 3

$ pry -r ./config/environment
pry(main)> Article.count
=> 3

pry(main)> cd Article
pry(#<Class:0x1022f60e0>):1> self
=> Article(id: integer, name: string, content: text, created_at: datetime, updated_at: datetime, published_at: datetime)

pry(#<Class:0x1022f60e0>):1> first
=> #<Article id: 1, name: "What is Music", content: "Music is an art form in which the medium is sound o...", created_at: "2011-08-24 20:35:29", updated_at: "2011-08-24 20:37:22", published_at: "2011-05-13 23:00:00">

pry(#<Class:0x1022f60e0>):1> cd first
pry(#<Article:0x102300c98>):2> name
=> "What is Music"

pry(#<Article:0x102300c98>):2> cd name
pry("What is Music"):3> upcase
=> "WHAT IS MUSIC"

pry("What is Music"):3> nesting
Nesting status:
--
0. main (Pry top level)
1. #<Class:0x1022f60e0>
2. #<Article:0x102300c98>
3. "What is Music"

pry(#<Class:0x1022f60e0>):1> ls
[:_, :_pry_, :inp, :out, :@_create_callbacks, :@_defined_class_methods, :@_save_callbacks, :@_update_callbacks, :@_validate_callbacks, :@arel_engine, :@arel_table, :@attribute_methods_generated, :@cached_attributes, :@column_names, :@columns, :@columns_hash, :@finder_needs_type_condition, :@generated_attribute_methods, :@inheritable_attributes, :@inheritance_column, :@parent_name, :@quoted_primary_key, :@quoted_table_name, :@relation]

pry(#<Class:0x1022f60e0>):1> show-doc Array#in_groups_of

From: /Users/eifion/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/activesupport-3.0.10/lib/active_support/core_ext/array/grouping.rb @ line 19:
Number of lines: 15

signature: in_groups_of(number, fill_with=?)

Splits or iterates over the array in groups of size number,
padding any remaining slots with fill_with unless it is false.

  %w(1 2 3 4 5 6 7).in_groups_of(3) {|group| p group}
  ["1", "2", "3"]
  ["4", "5", "6"]
  ["7", nil, nil]

  %w(1 2 3).in_groups_of(2, '&nbsp;') {|group| p group}
  ["1", "2"]
  ["3", "&nbsp;"]

  %w(1 2 3).in_groups_of(2, false) {|group| p group}
  ["1", "2"]
  ["3"]

pry(#<Class:0x104e63de0>):1> show-method all.in_groups_of

From: /Users/eifion/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/activesupport-3.0.10/lib/active_support/core_ext/array/grouping.rb @ line 19:
Number of lines: 19

def in_groups_of(number, fill_with = nil)
  if fill_with == false
    collection = self
  else
    # size % number gives how many extra we have;
    # subtracting from number gives how many to add;
    # modulo number ensures we don't add group of just fill.
    padding = (number - size % number) % number
    collection = dup.concat([fill_with] * padding)
  end

  if block_given?
    collection.each_slice(number) { |slice| yield(slice) }
  else
    groups = []
    collection.each_slice(number) { |group| groups << group }
    groups
  end
end

/app/models/article.rb

class Article < ActiveRecord::Base
  attr_accessible :name, :content, :published_at
  has_many :comments

  def word_count
    words = content.scan(/\\w+/)
    words.size
  end
end

> word_count

From: /Users/eifion/blog/app/models/article.rb @ line 7 in Article#word_count:

     2:   attr_accessible :name, :content, :published_at
     3:   has_many :comments
     4: 
     5:   def word_count
     6:     words = content.scan(/\\w+/)
 =>  7:     binding.pry
     8:     words.size
     9:   end
    10: end

pry(#<Article:0x1008c3f38>):3> words
=> []

class Article < ActiveRecord::Base
  attr_accessible :name, :content, :published_at
  has_many :comments

  def word_count
    words = content.scan(/\w+/)
    words.size
  end
end

pry(#<Article:0x1008c3f38>):3> word_count
=> 55

source 'http://rubygems.org'

gem 'rails', '3.0.10'
gem 'sqlite3'
gem 'nifty-generators'
gem 'pry', :group => :development

def index
  @articles = Article.all
  binding.pry
end

From: /Users/eifion/blog/app/controllers/articles_controller.rb @ line 4 in ArticlesController#index:

     1: class ArticlesController < ApplicationController
     2:   def index
     3:     @articles = Article.all
 =>  4:     binding.pry
     5:   end
     6: 
     7:   def show
     8:     @article = Article.find(params[:id])
     9:   end