Workbench

Write a snippet, run it inside this project with the application booted, and read what came back.

For one line at a time the terminal above is better. This is for the twenty lines you keep editing.

Controls

Control	What it does
Run it with	Which runner executes the snippet.
Snippet	The code. ⌘/Ctrl + Enter runs it too.
Run	Sends the snippet and shows the output, the exit code and stderr.
History	The snippets you have run. Clicking one puts it back in the editor with its runner.
Forget	Clears the history.

Two kinds of runner

Kind	What you get
Application booted	Your models, config and container.
Bare	The language on its own. No framework, no database connection.

Every row says which it is. Picking the wrong one is how you spend ten minutes before noticing your models were never loaded.

Worth knowing

• Print what you want to see: dump(), echo, print. The value of the last expression is not echoed.
• The exit code decides success, not whether stderr was empty. Plenty of languages write to stderr on a good run.
• A run is time-bounded. If it was stopped at the limit, the card says so.
• The project has to be running, and an empty snippet does not run.