Happy birthday to everyone.

.gitignore

@@ -25,3 +25,9 @@ nbproject
 ############################
 testApp
 coverage
+
+
+############################
+# Other
+############################
+.node_history

bin/sails-console.js

@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ module.exports = function () {
 		console.log();
 
 		var repl = REPL.start('sails> ');
+    history(repl, path.resolve(__dirname, '../.node_history'));
 		repl.on('exit', function(err) {
 			if (err) {
 				log.error(err);
@@ -62,3 +63,48 @@ module.exports = function () {
 
 	});
 };
+
+/**
+ * REPL History
+ * Pulled directly from https://github.com/tmpvar/repl.history
+ * with the slight tweak of setting historyIndex to -1 so that
+ * it works as expected.
+ */
+var fs = require('fs');
+function history (repl, file) {
+
+  try {
+    var stat = fs.statSync(file);
+    repl.rli.history = fs.readFileSync(file, 'utf-8').split('\n').reverse();
+    repl.rli.history.shift();
+    repl.rli.historyIndex = -1;
+  } catch (e) {}
+
+  var fd = fs.openSync(file, 'a'), reval = repl.eval;
+
+  repl.rli.addListener('line', function(code) {
+    if (code && code !== '.history') {
+      fs.write(fd, code + '\n');
+    } else {
+      repl.rli.historyIndex++;
+      repl.rli.history.pop();
+    }
+  });
+
+  process.on('exit', function() {
+    fs.closeSync(fd);
+  });
+
+  repl.commands['.history'] = {
+    help : 'Show the history',
+    action : function() {
+      var out = [];
+      repl.rli.history.forEach(function(v, k) {
+        out.push(v);
+      });
+      repl.outputStream.write(out.reverse().join('\n') + '\n');
+      repl.displayPrompt();
+    }
+  };
+};
+