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Power Point
Power Point

Reputation: 291

rails console - display active record results in a table

Is there a way to display Active Record results in table format in the script/console environment?

Upvotes: 29

Views: 12701

Answers (2)

Chris Doyle
Chris Doyle

Reputation: 1039

Also check out http://tableprintgem.com. It's an efficient way to view a list of structured data, making it easy to scan and compare across large swaths of records (and for many people, it's a comfortable return to the SQL command line output of yesteryear :)

table_print ruby gem - explore your data

The most powerful feature of table_print is the ability to see your data in the context of other objects it relates to. You can reference nested objects with the method chain required to reach them. This example is showing data from three different tables:

  • name from the Author table (reached through author.name)
  • title from the Book table (reached through author.books.title)
  • caption from the Photo table (reached through author.books.photos.caption)

table_print ruby gem - contextualize your data

There's a short intro screencast at http://tableprintgem.com

(full disclosure: I wrote this gem)

Upvotes: 11

Jordan Running
Jordan Running

Reputation: 106157

Yep. There's a gem called hirb that does this very well.

Upvotes: 38

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