Use AwesomePrint in Rails Console without adding to Gemfile

.aprc

AwesomePrint.defaults = {
  :indent => -2,
  :color => {
    :string => :greenish,
    :date => :yellowish,
    :time => :yellowish,
    :nilclass => :cyanish
  }
}

.pryrc

# Determine the load path for your system by running `gem which awesome_print`;
# remove `awesome_print.rb` from the end of the output.
$LOAD_PATH << '/Users/pdobb/.gem/ruby/1.9.3/gems/awesome_print-1.6.1/lib/'
require "awesome_print"

Instructions:

1. Install AwesomePrint gem:
   gem install awesome_print
2. Add AwesomePrint to the LOAD_PATH for your console sessions. Using pry, we can this to ~/.pryrc as shown above.
3. Add formatting options for AwesomePrint to ~/.aprc as shown above.
4. In the Rails Console, prefix whatever query method you want with ap.

YES! Thank you! 🍻

I couldn't figure out how to get the load path into .irbrc until you showed me gem which [gem_name]

@fakefarm No problem. Although I've since learned that you can just do gem "awesome_print" to load the gem. For example:

begin
  gem 'awesome_print'
  require 'awesome_print'
  AwesomePrint.pry!
rescue Gem::LoadError
  puts 'The "awesome_print" gem is not installed. Skipping AwesomePrint.pry!'
end