When I load script/console
, sometimes I want to play with the output of a controller or a view helper method.
Are there ways to:
To call helpers, use the helper
object:
$ ./script/console
>> helper.number_to_currency('123.45')
=> "R$ 123,45"
If you want to use a helper that's not included by default (say, because you removed helper :all
from ApplicationController
), just include the helper.
>> include BogusHelper
>> helper.bogus
=> "bogus output"
As for dealing with controllers, I quote Nick's answer:
> app.get '/posts/1' > response = app.response # you now have a rails response object much like the integration tests > response.body # get you the HTML > response.cookies # hash of the cookies # etc, etc