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Debugger Driven Development with Pry

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Transcript

  1. @JoelTurnbull DEBUGGER DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT with PRY

  2. @JoelTurnbull DEBUGGER DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT with PRY

  3. DEBUGGER DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT with PRY

  4. + DEBUGGERS =

  5. None
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  9. FIX SOFTWARE

  10. BUILD SOFTWARE

  11. None
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  14. DEBUGGER DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT with PRY

  15. REPL DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT with PRY

  16. None

  17. IRB Pry

  18. IRB Pry

  19. RUNTIME IRB Pry

  20. RUNTIME IRB Pry

  21. None

  22. Pry vs. IRB

  23. Syntax Highlighting Tab Completion Pry vs. IRB

  24. Enhanced Introspection ! Pry vs. IRB

  25. None
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  29. DRTFM

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  31. Enhanced Introspection ! Pry vs. IRB

  32. Enhanced Introspection Extendability through Plugins Pry vs. IRB

  33. Enhanced Introspection Extendability through Plugins Pry vs. IRB

  34. binding.pry pry-debugger pry-rescue pry-stack_explorer Pry Tools

  35. cd-cause play edit copy-history try-again pry-rescue pry pry pry-clipboard pry-rescue

    Pry Commands
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  37. RUNTIME DEVELOPER CONSOLE

  38. INTROSPECTIVE DYNAMIC REFLECTIVE

  39. RUNTIME DEVELOPER CONSOLE

  40. WORKFLOW PROBLEMS

  41. WORKFLOW PROBLEMS implicit context switching !

  42. WORKFLOW PROBLEMS implicit context switching guesswork

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  44. WORKFLOW PROBLEMS implicit context switching guesswork backwards

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  47. WORKFLOW PROBLEMS implicit context switching guesswork backwards

  48. WORKFLOW SOLUTIONS introspection / docs / src runtime smart editing

  49. None

  50. RUNTIME DEVELOPMENT

  51. RUNTIME DEV RECAP building not fixing validating before codifying exploring

    and informing no reloading

  52. TDD with PRY

  53. ♥ Failure

  54. ♥ Failure {Debugger}

  55. TDD with PRY

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  68. Enhanced Introspection Extendability through Plugins Pry vs. IRB

  69. pry-define-it https://github.com/joelturnbull/pry-define-it

  70. pry-define-it https://github.com/joelturnbull/pry-define-it

  71. CONCLUSION

  72. ♥ RUNTIME

  73. DRTFM

  74. None

  75. FIX SOFTWARE

  76. FIX SOFTWARE {Debugger}

  77. BUILD SOFTWARE

  78. BUILD SOFTWARE {Debugger}

  79. None

  80. @JoelTurnbull DEBUGGER DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT with PRY