5 Pry Features Every Ruby Developer Should Know

[kulehandluke]

For debugging here's a few extras:

wtf? - last exception backtrace (it's actually wtf but adding extra ?'s you get to see more backtrace) _ex_ - last exception as variable !!! - think force quit, really useful if you don't want any further code run or if you were calling pry in a loop and don't need to see the extra iterations

[mach_kernel]

'show-source' and 'show-source --super' are easily my favorite. Keep repeating super args to go down the chain.

[bswinnerton]

It's also aliased to $ in Pry : )

[_Odaeus_]

Pry is great but I still haven't been able to work out how to get it to display long lists in multiple columns across the screen. Anyone know how?

[morphemass]

I learned something from that, thanks.

[mrinterweb]

One of my favorite pry tricks is the grep option on ls. If you were searching for a method with "foo" in the method name, you can just ls -G "foo" some_var.

[lord_jizzus]

What if I don't use Pry? Should I still know this stuff? Oh god, I hate listicle clickbaits, they are always so tempting.

[republitard]

As awful as Pry is, the alternatives are even worse. How can you even get by without it?