Lotus Console

A simple rake task that replicates the rails console for Lotus Framework

How to?

I assume that your config/application.rb is the place where you initialize all Lotus boot config

below is my config/application.rb for your interest

# config/application.rb

require 'rubygems'

# Set up gems listed in the Gemfile.
ENV['BUNDLE_GEMFILE'] ||= File.expand_path('../../Gemfile', __FILE__)

require 'bundler/setup' if File.exists?(ENV['BUNDLE_GEMFILE'])


module Blog
  class Application < Lotus::Application
    configure do
      layout :application
      routes 'config/routes'

      load_paths << 'app'

      controller_pattern "%{controller}Controller::%{action}"
      view_pattern       "%{controller}::%{action}"
    end
  end
end

next, we add pry gem into our app by editing our Gemfile

# Gemfile

source 'https://rubygems.org'

gem 'lotusrb',          github: 'lotus/lotus'
gem 'lotus-utils',      github: 'lotus/utils'
gem 'lotus-helpers',    github: 'lotus/helpers'
gem 'lotus-model',      github: 'lotus/model'
gem 'lotus-controller', github: 'lotus/controller'
gem 'lotus-view',       github: 'lotus/view'
gem 'lotus-router',     github: 'lotus/router'

gem 'pry'

and make sure you run bundle install after that.

Now we create a Rakefile with following task

# Rakefile

desc 'Application console'
task :console do
  exec 'bundle exec pry -r./config/application.rb'
end

and now you can run bundle exec rake console to get all the sweetness of Rails console in Lotus.

Let's hope the next version of Lotus will bundle similar tool.