# Script/console doesn't load model

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/script-console-doesnt-load-model/86052>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [February 19, 2007, 1:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/script-console-doesnt-load-model/86052 "2007-02-19T13:51:41Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 19, 2007, 1:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/script-console-doesnt-load-model/86052/1 "2007-02-19T13:51:41Z")

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I’m trying to test functions in my models using the console.

Should the code be in the model? I think so.  
I’m encapsulating  
find( … :conditions=\> …

However these functions aren’t available when I run the console.

Am I missing something or is this ‘by design’?

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**Post date:** [February 19, 2007, 7:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/script-console-doesnt-load-model/86052/2 "2007-02-19T19:07:27Z")

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Hi, you should be invoking the find method as follows:

class\_name.method\_name

e.g. Product.find( :all )

Good luck,

-Conrad

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**Post date:** [February 19, 2007, 10:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/script-console-doesnt-load-model/86052/3 "2007-02-19T22:22:56Z")

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Conrad T. said the following on 02/19/2007 01:06 PM:

> Hi, you should be invoking the find method as follows:
> 
> class\_name.method\_name

That _IS_ what I was typing.

In fact the console has a this neat trick whereby if you type the name  
of  
the class and a tab it will show the methods, or class\_name.find  
and it  
will show you all the find methods for that class.

I do this I I don’t see the methods I have defined in the model.

a = Page.find\_in

and I don’t see the “find\_in\_book” that I defined in the model.

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**Post date:** [February 20, 2007, 1:03am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/script-console-doesnt-load-model/86052/4 "2007-02-20T01:03:16Z")

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Did you restart ./script/console ?

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**Post date:** [February 20, 2007, 1:21am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/script-console-doesnt-load-model/86052/5 "2007-02-20T01:21:18Z")

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Yes.

Ved Bew said the following on 02/19/2007 07:02 PM:

> > the class and a tab it will show the methods, or class\_name.find and it  
> > will show you all the find methods for that class.
> > 
> > I do this I I don’t see the methods I have defined in the model.
> > 
> > a = Page.find\_in
> > 
> > and I don’t see the “find\_in\_book” that I defined in the model.

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