handcar

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Have you ever wanted to type console.log() in your rails app?

def index
  @people = People.all.age_less_than_20
  console.log(@people)
end

Handcar lets you to push data from your rails application to firebug console.

In Action

• Here is your action:

    def index
        honk('Handcar is ruby on rails console for your firebug')
        honk(['this is string',2,{:hash_in => 'Array'},5,6])
        honk(nil)
        honk(2)
        honk({:simple_hash => {:hash_in => 'Hash'}, :in => ''})
    end
  

• And here is you firebug console:
  

• And moreover, when you get an error, it will display all your honks before that error:
  
  I think you have got the idea

Installation

Handcar has two parts: rails plugin & firefox plugin.
Both had to be installed:

• Firefox extention
• Rails plugin:
  ./script/plugin install git://github.com/inem/handcar.git

Possible issues

• Handcar aims only local development process. It will not communicate with non-localhost machine.
• You will not see actual ruby objects in firebug. Of course it is your objects' representations in JSON format

Source code

• http://github.com/inem/handcar
• http://github.com/inem/handcar-firefox