danvisintainer / prybaby

A Ruby gem that does some extra things with Pry.

Prybaby

What is this?

I love Pry, but I've also found that I'm rather trigger-happy with using their breakpoints. It helps a lot to use them, but getting rid of them all in the end (especially if they are across multiple files) gets rather tedious.

I also wanted to try and make a Ruby gem of my own (my first one!), so I decided to make one that removes every instance of binding.pry from my code. And thus, Prybaby was born.

Installation

Just run gem install prybaby to get it installed.

Using it

In your terminal, just run prybaby. By default, it'll search your current working directory, including subdirectories, for Ruby source files and comment out any line containing binding.pry in it. It'll put the # in the right place even if your code is indented, but your tabs must be made of spaces - this doesn't yet work for \t tabs (it'll just place the # at the start of the line). You can undo this by running Prybaby with -u, which will uncomment the commented-out lines (Prybaby will only uncomment a line with binding.pry in it).

Invoking -r will search for any instances of binding.pry and remove them. Note that it will remove the entire line that a pry breakpoint is found on, even if the breakpoint instruction is inside a comment.

You can invoke -h for a quick rundown of the options.

Prybaby will only do its work on Ruby source files (ending in .rb). It'll scan your source files line-by-line, and it'll copy your code into a temporary file named prybaby_temp as it scans. Your original code file isn't replaced by the temporary one until Prybaby has finished scanning the current file.

Todo

• add a verbose mode
• add scanning for .erb files as well, maybe
• refactor the code in #comment_out_breakpoints
• comment aligning in breakpoints only works when tabs are spaces
• better the code so it's more in line with the Ruby style guide
• add proper Rake tests