pry gem how to reload?

Question

I am using the Pry gem in my Rails console, but the pry flavored rails-console seems to have lost the reload! method for reloading models and stuff.

Here's how I start the pry console

c:\rails\app> pry -r ./config/environment 

Thank You

Answer 1

To use reload! like the rails console command, add this code to your .pryrc

# load Rails Console helpers like reload require 'rails/console/app' extend Rails::ConsoleMethods puts 'Rails Console Helpers loaded' 

EDIT== Gem pry-rails already do all of this, much simplier .

Answer 2

For anyone coming to this question recently: the answer has changed in Rails 3.2, because they've changed how they implement reload! Where in earlier version the irb commands were added as methods to Object, now they are added to IRB::ExtendCommandBundle to avoid polluting the global namespace.

What I do now is (1) in development.rb

silence_warnings do   begin     require 'pry'     IRB = Pry     module Pry::RailsCommands ;end     IRB::ExtendCommandBundle = Pry::RailsCommands   rescue LoadError   end end 

and (2) in .pryrc

if Kernel.const_defined?("Rails") then   require File.join(Rails.root,"config","environment")   require 'rails/console/app'   require 'rails/console/helpers'   Pry::RailsCommands.instance_methods.each do |name|      Pry::Commands.command name.to_s do        Class.new.extend(Pry::RailsCommands).send(name)     end   end end 

Here's the link to the Rails pull request where the change was introduced - https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/3509