pry-plus

Get up and going with a good set of pry tools right away.

Based on RKing's pry-plus. Updated with support for ruby 2.5 (requires Ruby version >= 2.3.0).

Installation

In your Gemfile:

gem 'kandr-pry-plus'

Dependent Gems

The following gems will be included in your project as dependencies of pry-plus.

pry-doc

Allows you to look into the Ruby builtin classes with the ? and $ commands.

• ? [].pop
• $ [].pop
• …etc.

pry-docmore

Shows docs for dollar-vars and keywords

• show-docmores
• ? module
• ? $`

pry-byebug

An essential gem. Turns Pry into a steppable debugger. Ruby 2.5 compatible.

• Making the basic require 'pry'; binding.pry from a script come alive.
• In conjunction with plymouth or pry-rescue, to explore failing tests.
• Following calls into other libs.

pry-stack_explorer

Allows you to navigate the call stack.

• So many. TODO = document some.

pry-rescue

Provides Pry.rescue do … end to capture any exceptions and start pry from the context of the source of the exception.

• Shortens write-run-debug cycles when exceptions are involved.
• Exploring causes of hard-to-replicate exceptions.
• cd-cause to source of exceptions in code run within Pry
• Rescues on test failure via require of pry-rescue/minitest and pry-rescue/rspec

bond

An excellent tabcompletion gem. Having this dep enables new Pry stuff. Note that pry v0.9.10 doesn't have this feature, so you must use a repo version.

• require 'x<tab>
• {asdf: 1, hjkl: 2}[:a<tab>
• Chain.of.calls.<tab> # Old pry completion was generic in this case.