Houston Ruby Brigade

Name: Houston Ruby / Ruby on Rails Monthly Meetup
Start: 2013-01-16T01:00:00Z
Location: START Houston

Houston Ruby / Ruby on Rails Monthly Meetup

Jan 15, 2013 · 7:00 PM
START Houston

Schedule:
7:00 - 7:10 - Ruby News
7:10 - 7:30 - Rails Essentials: foreman -- @jwo
7:45 - 8:30 - Debugging your Rails Application -- @jwo

Rails Essentials

@jwo will run a short series on the essential gems every Ruby/Rails developer needs in his/her arsenal. This month: foreman... a must if you use Heroku or if you have multiple services that make your app go.

Debugging your Rails Application

@jwo - Newbies are frequently frustrated when they discover there's no IDE to add a breakpoint in Rails. Let's go through ways to debug your Rails applications, including the <%= debug @your_object %>, using the ever-cool Pry to peek inside your app and see what's running (and change things), and the new kid on the block: better-errors.

Let's go 2013!!!zomg!!11

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John C. Bland I.

I'm about 1.9 times better at rails thx to the debugging stuff. Death to puts! ;-) lol

0 · January 16, 2013
Wes G.

Here's a little tidbit I heard about on Ruby5 (http://ruby5.envylabs.com/) about a month ago - it sets up your irb (or Pry) to auto-reload on every command, so you don't have to do it manually anymore:

http://jkfill.com/2012/12/08/automatic-code-reloading-in-rails-console

1 · January 15, 2013
- Jesse W.
  
  Cool! RailsCast about Rails4 (http://railscasts.com...) lets you set the console to always use pry: # also need to add pry to Gemfile
  console do
  require "pry"
  config.console = Pry
  end
  
  0 · January 15, 2013