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In the spirit of Rails, does Blitz include a repl analogous to irb? Something that automatically loads in your models and maybe config?

It’s been a while since I’ve used Rails but that interactive environment was my favorite way to get familiar with activerecord models.

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I actually think that RedwoodJS is more in spirit of Rails than Blitz and it does include a lot of boilerplate generation. But yeah, Blitz does have a CLI as well: https://blitzjs.com/docs/cli-overview

Thanks. I’m referring more to a REPL environment for executing inline javascript against your project rather than a CLI of prebaked commands.

So something like creating an instance of an existing model definition and trying out its methods instead of CLI for running a database migration or generating a stubbed model definition.

It does have that aswell: https://blitzjs.com/docs/cli-console

Aha! Thanks

Now I’m certainly going to be trying Blitz.

I'm genuinely curious in what ways you feel Redwood is more in the spirit of Rails than Blitz? Maybe there's some things we can improve.

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