Glad to see someone mentioned these! Making your own irb console is dead easy: myfile.rb require 'pry' class Stuff def initialize binding.pry end end

Glad to see someone mentioned these! Making your own irb console is dead easy: myfile.rb require 'pry' class Stuff def initialize binding.pry end end Stuff.new # diy console Also, awesome_print is a lifesaver as well... One tip I do have is: be careful when "prying" you don't want to accidentally ship a "binding.pry" into production (*I did it to our staging server once-- both hilarious and stupid)