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

I have another answer to this one: set a @debug on the class that you want to debug. That way you can do:

  if (@debug && (the_condition)) then debugger end

or

  debugger unless !@debug 

then when you are done with the debugger just @debug = false and c.

However, I'm not really happy with having debugger 'hard stops' in live code. These are the kind of things that can be accidentally checked in and forgotten about until something breaks. The @debug would certainly fall under that as well. To that end I think my ideal solution would use Matt's idea and a script that sets up a breakpoint inside the object when the object is created. That way you'd have the debugging that you want but you wouldn't have any code in source control that is specifically for development. I'll update this answer if I find such a solution.