Prying into your app's private life

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Pry is a drop-in console that replaces irb in Rails with four lines and gives live access to a running app, letting the presenter open source with edit method opens editor, run shell commands from the REPL with dot-prefixed shell commands, browse objects with ls/cd, and push fixes into a live request using pry-remote + pow. A real bug is diagnosed (a monkey-patched String two_proc broke association conditions), live edits demonstrate working code, though pow demos occasionally glitch and old Rails apps can have gem incompatibilities.

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1. 0:00Introduction and background
2. 2:03Understanding REPLs
3. 3:23Advantages of Pry
4. 7:12Integrating Pry in Rails
5. 9:33Remote debugging with Pow
6. 12:30Q&A and closing thoughts

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