Re:Where is Ruby Headed in 2021?
by nitrogen on Friday November 19, 2021 @06:17AM
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And don't forget the option of just calling into pry at the line in question and typing ls and show-doc. Also ripgrep is incredibly useful for navigating new codebases.
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Yes, grep + debugger / pry were how I solved this when I was still writing lots of Ruby. I find it much more productive to be able to get these answers statically, but I was too strong when I said "impossible"; there's always some way to find the right code, or the VM wouldn't be able to run it :)
Yes, you’re quite right! Thank you again, I must remember to use pry more.
With ruby 3.1 I think we’re getting a new default debug.rb gem.
It will be interesting to see if pry or the beat ideas from pry can be integrated with that.