As we know, debuggers are the main tools for programmers to debug the code easily. With the latest changes in Rails 7, byebug is replaced with ruby/debug.
Byebug has been helping Rails programmers debug their applications since 2014.
We can refer to that PR here.
Rails 7 comes with debug as its default debugger.
debug is Ruby’s new debugger
and
will be included in Ruby 3.1.
It is planned to be a standard library of Ruby 3.1.
Adding debug to Rails 7 will align Rails with Ruby.
Here is an example of debugging in both Byebug and Debug.
Debugging using byebug
class TestController < ApplicationController
def index
name = "Sam"
age = 23
byebug
place = "Boston"
end
end
# Result
[1, 8] in /Users/sam/test_app/app/controllers/test_controller.rb
1: class TestController < ApplicationController
2: def index
3: name = "Sam"
4: age = 23
5: byebug
=> 6: place = "Boston"
7: end
8: end
(byebug) name
"Sam"Debugging using Ruby Debug,
class TestController < ApplicationController
def index
name = "Sam"
age = 23
binding.break
place = "Boston"
end
end
# Result
[1, 8] in ~/test_app/app/controllers/test_controller.rb
1| class TestController < ApplicationController
2| def index
3| name = "Sam"
4| age = 23
=> 5| binding.break
6| place = "Boston"
7| end
9| end
=>#0 TestController#index at ~/test_app/app/controllers/test_controller.rb:5
#1 ActionController::BasicImplicitRender#send_action(method="index", args=[])
(rdbg) name # ruby
"Sam"
(rdbg) continue # commandFor more details regarding commands and features of Ruby Debug, please check this out Ruby-Debug.
