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Hi,

I'm trying to add default methods to the console like this:

# config/application.rb
# Source http://opensoul.org/2012/11/08/add-helper-methods-to-your-rails-console/
console do
  require 'console_foo'
  Rails::ConsoleMethods.include(ConsoleFoo)
end

Rails includes Rails::ConsoleMethods into the console::ExtendCommandBundle module, in this case that'd be Pry::ExtendCommandBundle which is an empty module so nothing is happening.

I could get this working by doing TOPLEVEL_BINDING.eval('self').extend ConsoleFoo but that seems a lot like a hack, is there a way we could have ExtendCommandBundle work?

The console block gets called before console.start (Pry.start) so maybe there's something to be done there?

Thanks

Just ran into this as well. Can confirm that switching back to IRB mitigates the problem. When you run include Rails::ConsoleMethods in the console, the methods are available again.

class Application < Rails::Application
    module ConsoleHelpers
      def bar; :bar; end
    end
    console do
      module Rails::ConsoleMethods
        include ConsoleHelpers
        def foo; :foo; end
      end
    end
end

rails c
Loading development environment (Rails 4.1.6)
[1] pry(main)> foo
=> :foo
[2] pry(main)> bar
NameError: undefined local variable or method `bar' for main:Object
from (pry):2:in `__pry__'

Funny right?

@mlangenberg yes. Going back to plain IRB fixes the problem. I actually ended up extending TOPLEVEL_BINDING. I blogged about this here.

Thanks for documenting your workaround @nhocki :+1: