Pass ruby script file to rails console

Question

Is there a way to pass ruby file, foo.rb to rails console. Expected results would be after console starts rails environment to run file.

Or any other way which

Answer 1

Consider creating a rake task.

For code that I need to create records or support migrations, for example, I often create a rake task like that from this answer. For example:

In lib/tasks/example.rake:

namespace :example do
    desc "Sample description you'd see if you ran: 'rake --tasks' in the terminal"
    task create_user: :environment do
        User.create! first_name: "Foo", last_name: "Bar"
     end
end

And then in the terminal run:

rake example:create_user