Ruby on Rails
UnderstandingTheScriptFiles

The script directory contains tools useful for the development of Rails applications. Here is a brief overview of what each script is for:

• about — About your application’s environment
• breakpointer — The client for listening receiving debuging information from your application. See HowtoDebugWithBreakpoint.
• console — The Console gives you access to your Rails Environments where you can interact with the domain model.
• destroy — Wipe out components you’ve generated (takes similar arguments to generate script). See HowToUngenerateStuff
• generate — generators produce boilerplate code. There a many AvailableGenerators. See also UnderstandingGenerators.
• performance/
  • benchmarker — benchmark one or more statement a number of times from within the environment. See BenchmarkerScript.
  • profiler — Returns profiling information when given a line of ruby code. See ProfilerScript.
• plugin — Rails plugin manager. Try script/plugin --help for full list of options. See Plugins for more information.
• process/ — Scripts for gracefully controlling Lighttpd processes. See LighttpdWithProcessScripts for full details.
  • reaper
  • spawner
• runner — Run some ruby code in your applications environment (given ruby code as the sole argument within quotes). See RunnerScript
• server — Start your application using either Lighttpd or WEBrick. See also How to use lighttpd with ./script/server. Faulty Link to be fixed

category: Understanding