How can I make awesome_print be the default in the heroku console?

Question

How can I make awesome_print be the default in the heroku console?

When I type Model.all in the console, I would like awesome_print to display the results without having to type ap Model.all.

Stonwin

Answer 1

The following gem combination seems to accomplish it in Rails 4.

# for the pretty
gem 'pry'
gem 'pry-rails'
gem 'pry-doc'
gem 'pry-awesome_print'
gem "awesome_print"

You can also remove from your .pryrc the following lines and it will work anyway :

require 'awesome_print'
AwesomePrint.pry!

Happy printing!

Hippocras

This works beautifully in rails 5.1.6 and should be the accepted answer. – Caswell

This is the only solution I've found that works for formatting devise models in IRB as well. Using rails 5.2.2 as well. thank you – Nitriding

Answer 2

Try installing pry, it has functionality like awesome print and more, and has instructions for installing into a rails application: http://pryrepl.org/

Nilla

I was able to get pry installed, but it doesn't print with a nice layout like awesome print does. Is there a way to make it print like awesome print? – Stonwin

Answer 3

If you have awesome_print gem you simply just use AwesomePrint.irb! in the console and voila.. it will display the output as how you want.

Philemol