[djisjke]

Your workflow may be good, I don't mean to judge that.

But is not the rails way to be in the shell, rails console and editor at all times? Instead of trying things out in the browser you have automated testing doing that for you?

[mef]

Why would you ever want to make a web app without constantly testing it in a browser?

[te_chris]

Because constantly refreshing the page just to check a variable assignment that could be checked by an automated test is a ridiculous waste of time.

[adrianpike]

If you've got a decent test suite, it's much faster to leave the browser out of the loop, especially when you're refactoring stuff under the hood.