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This gem adds a "pry" command to ruby-debug.
To see it in action, run ruby examples/foo.rb and type "pry" at the debug prompt.
To use it in a project, add this to your Gemfile:
gem "ruby-debug-pry", :require => "ruby-debug/pry"
For more information on pry, read this article.
This has been tested on Ruby 1.8.7 p334 and Ruby 1.9.2 p136 and seems to work.
Future Steps
Right now I don't have any of the additional features that ruby-debug's IRB command has. I don't really use them, but it would be nice to have them.
next,step, andcontsupport- add
autopryconfiguration variable - make debugger state accessible as a global variable
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We found that ruby-debug-pry demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
Package last updated on 20 Jun 2011
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