evantahler/actionhero — pull request #380 by evantahler (2014-05-13 04:59:28+00:00)
Title: actionhero REPL

*part of version 9.0.0*

actionhero now has a REPL! Running `grunt console` will load up a version of action hero in your terminal where you have access to the `api` object. This version of the server will `boot`, `initialize`, and `start`, but will skip booting any `servers`. This will give you a full environment to manually take action.

The REPL will:

- source `NODE_ENV` properly to load the config
- will connect to faye/redis, and load any user-defined initializers
- will load any plugins
- will **not** boot any servers

If you are familiar with rails, this is very similar to `rails c`

![screen shot 2014-05-12 at 9 57 39 pm](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/303226/2953485/4db6cbe2-da5b-11e3-96de-26fe4931d9af.png)