Ruby on Rails 2.1 - The Useful Scripts

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Ruby provides many useful scripts which you use during your project implementation. Here are few scripts which you will use most frequently.

Script	Description
script/about	Gives information about environenment
script/breakpointer	Starts the breakpoint server
script/console	interactive Rails Console
script/destroy	Deletes files created by generators
script/generate	Used by generators
script/runner	Executes a task in the rails context
script/server	Launches the development server
script/performance/profile	Profile an expansive method
script/performance/benchmarker	benchmark different methods

Script Example:

Here is an example to call a script. Following script will start development server.

C:\ruby> ruby script/server