How to stop the Rails debugger for the current request

Question

Say I have a loop in my code that calls the rails debugger a few times

def show
    animals = [\'dog\', \'cat\', \'owl\', \'tiger\']
    for animal in animals
           


        

Answer 1

put your debugger statement somewhere before the iteration, then set a breakpoint inside the iteration which you can then clear later.

Example:

def index

  debugger

  @things = Thing.all
  @things.each do |thing|
    # ... something you want to check out in the debugger
    thing.some_calculation
  end
end

When you enter the debugger, set a breakpoint inside:

b app/controllers/things_controller.rb:42

(Where 42 is the line number you want to break at, like thing.some_calculation above. Note that it has to be an executable line of code -- comments, blank lines won't work). The debugger will show a breakpoint number and location:

Breakpoint 1 at .../app/controllers/things_controller.rb:42

Now, every time you continue, you will stop at the breakpoint. When you're done and want to complete the request, delete the breakpoint:

delete 1

continue once more, and you will complete the request!