Where did the scripts go?

The recent commit removing the contents of the script directory streamlines rails somewhat. But there were a lot of files in that directory, this is a quick cheat sheet on what replaces what…

The script directory used to contain

Old Script File		How to use now		Shortcut Command
about		rake about
server		rails server		rails s
console		rails console		rails c
dbconsole		rails dbconsole		rails db
generate		rails generate		rails g
destroy		rails destroy
performance/benchmark		rails benchmark
performance/profiler		rails profiler
plugin		rails plugin
runner		rails runner

As you can see from the above, the server, console, dbconsole andgenerate parameters also have shortcut aliases.

When you run the rails command from within a Rails application directory, the above commands work, however, if you run the railscommand from outside a Rails application directory, then the usual Rails initialization command works in the format of rails/railties/bin/rails APP_PATH [options]

Note with the new 3.0 rails command, the APP_NAME has been changed to an APP_PATH and any options now come at the end, not before. APP_PATHallows you to initialise a new Rails application at some other path name and uses the last part of the path name for your application.

One word of warning, if you are running the Rails 3.0 Beta using the —devflag from a clone of the Rails source tree, then be sure to callscript/rails otherwise the rails binary that is run will be from your system gems, and you will end up initialising a new Rails application inside your new Rails 3 app directory.