`irb` as _default_ `debug` front-end?
jon-sully opened this issue · comments
Description
Greetings! I've been playing with the new irb/debug
integration that was recently released and overall the experience is really great. Having full irb
context while being in a full debug
session is really nice. The irb:rdbg
prompt is easy to work with and simple — kudos!
I'm hoping we can improve the experience a bit though. My understanding is that right now the only way to properly enter this context/experience is to use binding.irb
to halt the code, then once in that irb
session, manually call debug
.
After migrating to the debug gem after years of pry/byebug, it took some time for me to retrain my muscle memory for debugging to use debugger
rather than binding.pry
etc. but I've found that even with irb
's new front-end integration working with the debug gem, the debugger
still only loads the default debug front end. Is there any way that we could consolidate the whole experience such that simply using debugger
drops into the full irb:rdbg
session?
After chatting with the maintainer of debug
, he agreed to make this interface part of the debug
gem. The details are:
- Its current REPL will still be preserved and be the default. But users can use
irb:rdbg
as the default REPL by setting a configuration (e.g.RUBY_DEBUG_IRB_CONSOLE=1
) - When users use the
irb
command, it should open theirb:rdbg
console instead of vanilla IRB - Remote debugging will not be supported at the beginning
- But users can use
irb:rdbg
as the default REPL by setting a configuration (e.g.RUBY_DEBUG_IRB_CONSOLE=1
)
Sweet!
Remote debugging will not be supported at the beginning
Fair 'nuff!
Any idea what the best way to follow this development is? Ready to upgrade my debug
gem whenever that ships!
I've opened ruby/debug#1024 upstream to make its irb
command opening up an irb:rdbg
session. It could still take a while to polish before merging though.
Understandable! Thank you for this 🙏 I've been spending more time lately kicking into irb
from a debug session now that I know how, and I vastly prefer it to the pure rdbg
prompt
Woop woop! Out of curiosity, did ruby/debug#1024 include this functionality?
Its current REPL will still be preserved and be the default. But users can use irb:rdbg as the default REPL by setting a configuration (e.g. RUBY_DEBUG_IRB_CONSOLE=1)
@jon-sully Yes it does 😄