The autocomplete in the rails console messes with the functionality and history of the console. I have been able to temporarily disable autocomplete in the rails console inside of the shell each time with touch ~/.irbrc && echo "IRB.conf[:USE_AUTOCOMPLETE] = false" >> ~/.irbrc. Is there an easier way to accomplish this in the shell?
There are a few workarounds you can make to address this.
Just a few options
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Start the console with (optionally wrapping this up in a little shell script to avoid repeating yourself)
rails console – --noautocomplete
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Keeping with the approach you outlined, you could add the following to your start command/start script
touch ~/.irbrc && echo “IRB.conf[:USE_AUTOCOMPLETE] = false” >> ~/.irbrc
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Lastly,
sshing into your machine instead of using the web shell could make for a better experience.
It also looks like this is a common complaint, and there are a few changes in the works to address this