Create Break Points in Rails with Pry

Make debugging a breeze.

• Add pry to your GemFile
• Run bundle install
• Put binding.pry where you want to create breakpoint:

When the server gets to this point, it will yield to the terminal that is running rails s, here you can check values of variables and other things to troubleshoot what is happening. Enter exit when finished to return back to the server.

Advanced.

If you need to put binding.pry inside of a loop and don't want it to be called several times. Then outside of the loop put:

do_bind = true

Then where you want to bind put:

if do_bind
  do_bind = false
  binding.pry
end