Use Pry as IRB replacement in rails 3 console

development.rb

# Add this to the end of your development.rb and add 
#
# gem 'pry'
#
# to your Gemfile and run bundle to install.

silence_warnings do
  begin
    require 'pry'
    IRB = Pry
  rescue LoadError
  end
end

Any way to make it automagically puts the inspected return like IRB does? It would be a near perfect replacement if it did this.

@bbhoss, hey man put this in your ~/.pryrc

Pry.print = proc do |output, value|
  if Pry.color
    output.puts "=> #{CodeRay.scan(value.inspect, :ruby).term}"
  else
    output.puts "=> #{value.inspect}"
  end
end

The next release of Pry will use inspect by default :)

What potentially causes the load error?

@JoshCheek, the LoadError could be caused by the pry gem not being installed.

silence_warnings seems rather sloppy, why not:

Object.send :remove_const, :IRB
::IRB = Pry