Pry for Rails setup

awesome_pry.md

How to make awesome pry for Rails

Tested on Rails 5.1, for development, test and production (!).

At the top of your Gemfile (don't add to :development or :test):

• Add gem 'pry' to your Gemfile
• Add gem 'awesome_print' to your Gemfile

Make sure you updated your application.rb (not development.rb):

module App
  class Application < Rails::Application
    # Initialize configuration defaults for originally generated Rails version.
    config.load_defaults 5.1

    # Settings in config/environments/* take precedence over those specified here.
    # Application configuration should go into files in config/initializers
    # -- all .rb files in that directory are automatically loaded.
    config.assets.paths << Rails.root.join('app', 'assets', 'fonts')

    # ADD THESE 4 LINES:
    console do
      require 'pry'
      config.console = Pry
    end
  end
end

Make sure to have the following in your ~/.pryrc:

require 'awesome_print'
AwesomePrint.pry!

Then just spring stop && rails c.

Without pry for rails:

With pry for rails:

I would also recommend adding these to your :development, :test section:

  gem 'pry-byebug' # for `next`, `step`, etc. commands
  gem 'pry-stack_explorer' # for `show-stack` command