Run Rails commands outside of console

Question

With my large application, the Rails console takes a while to load up. Is there a way to single commands more easily?

I\'d also like to be able to automate stuff, an

Answer 1

There are two main ways to run commands outside console:

1. Rake task which depends on :environment

2. rails runner (previously script/runner), eg:

   $ rails runner "query"
   

Both are pretty well documented on the rails guide: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/command_line.html

btw: both of these methods will still take the same time as a console to fire up, but they are useful for non-interative tasks.