awesome-ruby VS Pry

Rails will always be a core pillar, but Ruby is a general purpose language with plenty of other applications. I would encourage you to look at some of the projects in https://awesome-ruby.com/ before declaring it "dead for everything but Rails."

Thanks, I used the awesome list for ruby for forever. Great resource

My current practice : I compare the different "awesome" sites : https://github.com/avelino/awesome-go , https://github.com/vinta/awesome-python , https://github.com/markets/awesome-ruby but I wonder if there is a better method.

Awesome Ruby - a community-driven collection of essentials to build web applications in Ruby on Rails: libraries, tools, frameworks, and software.

There are a lot of Ruby gems for sure. Checkout https://awesome-ruby.com/ which has suggested gems for several categories including an Excel one such as Roo or Spreadsheet Architect. Also can keyword searches a bit with the official gem repository at https://Rubygems.org

that's surprising considering `pry`[1] is such an amazing debugger IMO.

[1] https://github.com/pry/pry

All of my recent tutorials and projects were primarily managed using the default Ruby REPL, irb, and I must say it's been nothing short of amazing. However, what ultimately prompted me to switch to Pry was its offering of better defaults. But what exactly does that mean? Let me demonstrate:

For older versions: Pry Gem

To do that, I would install `pry` into your rails project and then use it look around right before your test fails.https://github.com/pry/pry

This means I can be editing a shell script and easily inject arbitrary regions into a shell buffer for immediate testing (point never leaves the window where I am editing, and I can view the shell output in an adjacent window). This is similar to what Robe does with Pry within an inferior Ruby process using comint.

https://pry.github.io/ - also a lot of features from Pry have made it into the default IRB these days, but I still use pry. I don't know the equivalent commands in IRB.

For debugging, while not multi-threaded, to my knowledge, is the pry gem for debugging. There are a few different flavors, for instance, my favorite is pry-byebug.