Wiki Outdated?

[stdedos]

https://github.com/deivid-rodriguez/pry-byebug/wiki/Using-pry-byebug-inline

I haven't required 'pry' since I started using the plugin.

I could obviously fix it myself, I wanted to ask first though. I am not sure if there is any reason to keep the page, other than quick code example

[kriansa]

It depends on how you use it. If you use it with Rails, then you added it to the Gemfile and Rails automatically loads all dependencies on boot, therefore you don't need to manually require it.

If you use it elsewhere then you still need to manually require it.

[stdedos]

I've added it to the Gemfile, as I would add any Python dependency to requirements.txt

But I am not using Rails, no.

[kriansa]

It was unfair to say that Rails is the only tool that automatically does it. Many frameworks do.

In fact, this isn't about any framework. It's just Bundler. In your code, somewhere, there's either a call to a require 'pry' (which I doubt, as you said yourself, you didn't find any), or a call to Bundler.require (most probable).

You can test it yourself by creating an empty project and adding 'pry' to the Gemfile. It won't load automatically, unless you require pry manually or call:

require 'bundler'
Bundler.require(:default)

You can read more about this here. As a side note, requiring any gem is just done once, so even if you execute require more than once, you don't need to worry because it will only be loaded on the first time you called.

I've added it to the Gemfile, as I would add any Python dependency to requirements.txt

I once worked in a team where people had multiple debugging tools and not all of them used pry (some used Rubymine's, for instance) and therefore we decided not to add it to the Gemfile, and people had to manually install their debugging tool of preference. 🤷‍♂️