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

Putting this here as an alternative since this question showed up first in my own searches. Let's say you have a piece of code that isn't working under a specific circumstance, but works otherwise, and you have a whole slew of tests that exercise this but one specific test that fails. It's a PITA to have to continually type continue into the debug console until you get to the test you really want to debug, so I started using this convention:

In your code:

def some_common_function
  debugger if defined? ::ASDF
  # do something
end

Then in your test:

should "do this thing that it isn't doing under a specific circumstance" do
  # setup the specific situation
  ::ASDF = true
  # your tests
end