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Discussion on: What library/language/tool wowed you with its developer experience?

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Nans Dumortier • Edited

When I was working with Ruby on Rails, I remember you could use rails c, which would launch a ruby console configured with a direct access to your models and more. So I could do something like :

me = User.find_by_name("Nans")

(or something similar)
and access my user, enabling me to perform which ever action I wanted. It was great for prototyping !

This is the main thing I missed when starting NodeJS for the backend.

EDIT : as far as I remember, you could even do something like rails c --sandbox and perform anything you wanted; at the end of the session, it would rollback all the changes in your database.