Equivalence of Rails console for Node.js

I am trying out Node.js Express framework, and looking for plugin that allows me to interact with my models via console, similar to Rails console. Is there such a thing in NodeJS world?

If not, how can I interact with my Node.js models and data, such as manually add/remove objects, test methods on data etc.?

It's simple: add a REPL to your program

I am not very experienced in using node, but you can enter node in the command line to get to the node console. I then used to require the models manually

This may not fully answer your question, but to clarify, node.js is much lower-level than Rails, and as such doesn't prescribe tools and data models like Rails. It's more of a platform than a framework.

If you are looking for a more Rails-like experience, you may want to look at a more 'full-featured' framework built on top of node.js, such as Meteor, etc.