I really like how the Rails console solves the problems of test object creation and debugging.<\/p>\n
Usually, a web developer will push code to the webserver and hit shift-reload on the web browser. With the Rails console, you can avoid all that shift-reload madness.<\/p>\n
If I wanted to create 10000 blog posts for testing, I could do something like this:<\/p>\n
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\n10000.times
\n{ |i| Post.create(:title => “post number: ” + i.to_s, :body => “autogen Booyah!”) }
\n<\/strong>
\nThrough the console I can also do debugging pretty easily:<\/p>\n\n=> #