Hi, I am Jan. This is my old Ruby blog. I still post about Ruby, but I now do it on idiosyncratic-ruby.com. You should also install Irbtools to improve your IRB. 13 Rails-specific hints for your rails 3 console. .railsrc – how to load it? The .railsrc file should only be loaded in Rails enviroments. Put the following snippet into your ~/.irbrc or use the lastest irbtools: