bitfission

I was exploring my redmine install on my server by going into script/console. Whenever I tried to do anything, like finding a user, I’d get

NameError: undefined local variable or method `acts_as_watchable' for Issue:Class 

followed by a stack trace. I spent a while trying to figure out why this wasn’t working, then gave up. A few weeks later I tried again, and quickly realized the problem was that I only have a production environment set up, and I wasn’t telling script/console to use the production environment. In the process of figuring out how to do that ( –help ), I ran into this awesome feature I simply never knew about.

  -s, --sandbox      Rollback database modifications on exit. 

This is really cool. Especially if you’re going to be mucking around with your production data. I’m planning on hacking script/console to have -s enable by default if you go into the production environment. Or at the very least an alias.