Use just IRB for debugging #855
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There doesn't seem to be much we can do about this. Maybe we should keep pry around for now and just drop byebug.
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Plain irb works fine for demonstrating this feature, and in addition works well on JRuby, so we can run the scenario everywhere now.
Development of pry has stalled and it is suggested that debug in combination with irb is the future. For now, we cannot use debug yet since only a very old version runs on Ruby 2.5. For now, this change removes the pry, pry-doc, byebug and pry-byebug dependencies. These can be added back via Gemfile.local. Once support for Ruby 2.5 has been dropped, the new debug gem can be added as a permanent dependency to provide extended debugging features by default.
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Summary
Use plain irb for debugging and for demonstrating debugging
Details, Motivation and Context
Development of pry has stalled and it is suggested that debug in combination with irb is the future. For now, we cannot use debug yet since only a very old version runs on Ruby 2.5.
For now, this change removes the pry, pry-doc, byebug and pry-byebug dependencies. If needed for local development, these can be added back via Gemfile.local.
Debugging inside a scenario using Aruba is now demonstrated using plain irb. This has the added advantage of also working on JRuby.
Once support for Ruby 2.5 has been dropped, the new debug gem can be added as a permanent dependency to provide extended debugging features by default.
How Has This Been Tested?
I did a simple debug session with debug. This worked on Ruby 3.1, but not really on 2.5.
I ran the adjusted scenario on Ruby 3.1 and JRuby.
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