pry-plus

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

Dependent Gems

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-debugger

An essential gem. Turns Pry into a steppable debugger.

• 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-exception_explorer

Somewhat of a competitor to pry-rescue, but implemented differently. Currently doesn't work on C exceptions (such as 1/0 errors).

• Let an exception happen in the REPL, then use enter-exception to find it.

• Inline-style trap

• Block wrapper-style trap

• http://vimeo.com/36061298 ← "mini screencast"

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.

• 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.

jist

Replacement for the undermaintained gist gem.

• Improved implementation for Pry's gist command.

• Check out the jist -h output on the CLI, by the way.