How to get nice formatting in the Rails console

Question

I want to get something like this to look nice:

>> ProductColor.all
=> [#

        

Answer 1

I had some troubles making it work so I'll add my two cents to awesome_print add this to your Gemfile, preferably in :development

gem 'awesome_print', require: 'ap'

then in

rails console

you can do

> ap Model.all That's it. However you can also add

require "awesome_print"
AwesomePrint.irb!

to your ~/.irbrc, this way awesome_print will be required anytime you open the console and you can simply do

Model.all without the need of typing ap