Pry

Health v2 · maintenance only

Flags: no_license

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6836 stars · 609 forks observed · 2026-08-28

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Pry is a runtime developer console and IRB alternative for Ruby with powerful introspection capabilities such as source and documentation browsing, syntax highlighting, and state navigation. It can be used as a REPL, a developer console, or a debugger, and integrates with Rails via pry-rails.

Use cases

• replace irb with a better ruby repl
• inspect ruby object source code at runtime
• browse method documentation from the console
• use pry as the rails console
• debug ruby code with a runtime console
• navigate and explore object state with cd and ls
• edit methods in an editor from the repl

When to choose

• you want a more powerful Ruby REPL than IRB
• you need runtime introspection of Ruby objects and methods
• you want an enhanced Rails console experience
• you need a lightweight runtime debugger for Ruby

When to avoid

• you are not working in Ruby
• you need a full graphical IDE debugger
• you need a REPL for another language

Facets

library · maturity stable

developer-tools cli editor developer-tools programming-languages ruby cli cross-platform repl irb-alternative debugger introspection ruby-console runtime-invocation command-line

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