R – Vista Console App

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I'm doing a fair bit of work in Ruby recently, and using

 ruby script/console

Is absolutely critical. However, I'm really disappointed with the default Windows console in Vista, especially in that there's a really annoying bug where moving the cursor back when at the bottom of the screen irregularly causes it to jump back. Anyone have a decent console app they use in Windows?

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I use Console2.

I like the tabbed interface and that copy works properly if text breaks at the end of a line.

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Ruby-on-rails – How to call controller/view helper methods from the console in Ruby on Rails

To call helpers, use the helper object:

$ ./script/console
>> helper.number_to_currency('123.45')
=> "R$ 123,45"

If you want to use a helper that's not included by default (say, because you removed helper :all from ApplicationController), just include the helper.

>> include BogusHelper
>> helper.bogus
=> "bogus output"

As for dealing with controllers, I quote Nick's answer:

> app.get '/posts/1'
> response = app.response
# you now have a rails response object much like the integration tests

> response.body            # get you the HTML
> response.cookies         # hash of the cookies

# etc, etc

Python – How to clear the interpreter console

As you mentioned, you can do a system call:

For Windows:

>>> import os
>>> clear = lambda: os.system('cls')
>>> clear()

For Linux it would be:

>>> import os
>>> clear = lambda: os.system('clear')
>>> clear()

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