CSC/ECE 517 Fall 2014/ch1a 26 sn

Debugging in Rails using Pry

Debugging is a methodical process of finding and reducing the number of bugs, or defects, in a computer program or a piece of electronic hardware, thus making it behave as expected. Few of the debugging techniques are Print debugging (also known as printf debugging), Log debugging and Interactive debugging. Rails provides a range of options to make debugging easier which include debug helpers, loggers, graphical debuggers, Pry, and so on. In the following sections, we would be discussing about debugging in Rails using Pry.