What are the differences between `rails console` options?

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rails console opens an interactive Ruby session with the app loaded, and its options decide which data you touch and whether changes stay.

rails console, or rails c, starts the standard console in the development environment.
rails console --sandbox starts sandbox mode, which wraps the session in a database transaction and rolls back every change when you exit.
rails console -e production loads the production environment, so your commands act on live data.
rails dbconsole, or rails db, opens the database client, such as psql, with the app's connection settings.

# Sandbox mode - all changes rolled back
rails console --sandbox

# Production console
RAILS_ENV=production rails console

Use sandbox mode to try a risky query safely, and take extra care in a production console, where every change is real.

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