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Re:REPL-Driven Development (2017) by TeMPOraL on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @07:38AM (#16315861)
> I have my IDE setup with some scripts to copy a database from production.

Can't you just run those scripts as the first thing in your REPL session?

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Re:REPL-Driven Development (2017) by collyw on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @08:39AM (#16316119)
That just copies the data, its doesn't do imports or initial fetching of data - which running the application in and IDE does for me.

Having an IDE setup is pretty essential to my job, so I am going to need that for debugging certain errors anyway. Once that is setup, I rarely see the need to start scripting things for a REPL as a debugger feels far more useful to me.

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