Especially with pry existing now, the "Rails is magic" meme is tired and incorrect. Install pry, pry-rails. Something weird occurs? binding.pry, `show-method`

Especially with pry existing now, the "Rails is magic" meme is tired and incorrect. Install pry, pry-rails. Something weird occurs? binding.pry, `show-method` or `show-source` and it dumps you to the exact line and filepath of the method, be it the original or a monkeypatched method (use -a to show them). Keep digging like that and you'll eventually hit the C implementation code. [18] pry(String):1> show-method length From: string.c (C Method): Owner: String Visibility: public Number of lines: 5 VALUE rb_str_length(VALUE str) { return LONG2NUM(str_strlen(str, NULL)); }