Thursday, January 24, 2013

Using pry in test environment


Is it possible to use pry when I am running my tests? Sometimes when I am running specs for legacy code, I need a way to experiment with the existing code.


Answering my own question. Yes, it is possible. Just add binding.pry in the production code, run the specs, pry will stop at the line where you have the binding in the terminal window where you have the test running. You can also use pry-nav to use the ruby debug familiar commands step, next and continue while you debug the code.