Basic Pry Consoling
Get an overview of some debugging examples and run them in the Pry console.
Debugging examples
We’ve set Pry up as our Rails console, so we can access it with a simple rails console
:
Try running the following commands in the rails console
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> 1 + 1> project = Project.new(name: "Project Runway")
Examine object
Pry allows us to closely examine the current object under the scope, which we can determine with the self
command. Right now, the current object is main
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> self> ls
Unix directory
Pry uses the Unix directory navigation metaphor to work through object trees. So, just as typing ls
in a regular Unix terminal gives us a list ...