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I haven't been part of the Ruby community in a few years - Market demand forced me out of full time Ruby/Rails and into React/JS/TS land. Is Pry still a thing? I remember being able to drop into IRB via Pry within a running Rails process was extremely powerful and (IMHO) way better than any debugger I have ever used.

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Yes, the Rails console runs pry. It is indeed very powerful. My only gripe with it is that when you modify your code, you have to run ‘reload!’ and wait for the entire shebang to rebuild itself. This is opposed to Lisp REPLs where you can send individual expressions into the image with a simple key chord. But again, most of the value is there.

>Market demand forced me out of full time Ruby/Rails and into React/JS/TS land

Same, what a terrible fate we’ve met.

I refused to go all into the React/JS/TS and since I had some leverage to choose the tech I chose Elm for the front-end in my new job where I inherited a Java code base (that's now mostly Kotlin).

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