Rails 8 got even better for developers who love clean CLI workflows.

You can now customize the command-line tool used by rails dbconsole with the new config.active_record.database_cli setting.

Prefer pgcli over the default psql to connect to your database? Make your dev experience smoother with autocomplete and syntax highlighting:

# config/initializers/database_cli.rb
Rails.application.configure do
  if Rails.env.local?
    config.active_record.database_cli = {postgresql: "pgcli"}
  end
end

Available since Rails 8.0.0.beta1 — check out the pull request for full details and start customizing your database workflow today.