Ruby on Rails - The Scripts

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 environment.
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	Profiles an expansive method.
script/performance/benchmarker	Benchmarks different methods.

Script Example

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

C:\ruby> ruby script/server

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