A Beginner Introduction to Ruby Gem Pry

David Holmes
1 min readJun 8, 2020

I have recently finished a coding boot camp with Flatiron School for Software Engineering. One of the tools that took me the longest to grasp, but I used the most is Pry. Now, depending on what you’re using it might be called something different. For vanilla ruby, it is a gem called “Pry” and can be called using binding.pry. If you’re using ruby on rails it’s “byebug”. If you’re using Javascript its “debugger”. I’ve searched the internet and I couldn’t find a video or explanation that would help a true beginner, so I made one. I hope this helps those of you that are just starting out. If it doesn’t let me know in the comments and I’ll do my best to edit it.

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