running Rails console in production

Question

I have just gone live with my first Rails site, but now I have a problem. When I run the project in development mode on my IDE I can run the console to something like:

User.first.name='whatever' to change a users name.

How do I accomplish the same task on a live site in production mode?

Answer 1

if you're running rails 3.0 or greater, you can also use

rails console production 

production can of course be substituted with development or test (value is development by default)

Adding the option --sandbox makes it so that any changes you make to your database in the console will be rolled back after you exit

If this isn't working for you, you may need to try

bundle exec rails console production 

If you are actually trying to run the rails console on your production server, try googling "run rails console [your cloud hosting provider]" e.g. "run rails console heroku"

As of Rails 6 you need to use

RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rails c 

or

RAILS_ENV=production rails c 

depending on your setup