Remote sessions
Using the pry-remote gem we can start Pry remotely and connect to it using DRb. This allows us to
access the state of the running program from anywhere.
This also makes Pry usable with tools such as Pow.
gem install pry-remote
Here's a program starting pry-remote, we simply use binding.remote_pry instead of the normal binding.pry:
require 'pry-remote'
class Foo
def initialize(x, y)
binding.remote_pry
end
end
Foo.new 10, 20Running it will prompt you with a message telling you Pry is waiting for a program to connect itself to it:
[pry-remote] Waiting for client on drb://localhost:9876
You can then connect yourself using the pry-remote executable:
$ pry-remote
From: example.rb @ line 7 in Foo#initialize:
2:
3: require 'pry-remote'
4:
5: class Foo
6: def initialize(x, y)
=> 7: binding.remote_pry
8: end
9: end
10:
11: Foo.new 10, 20
pry(#<Foo:0x00000000d9b5e8>):1> self
=> #<Foo:0x1efb3b0>
pry(#<Foo:0x00000001efb3b0>):1> ls -l
_ _dir_ _ex_ _file_ _in_ _out_ _pry_ x y
pry(#<Foo:0x00000001efb3b0>):1> ^D
Paging is turned off. Tab completion does not work.
The edit command will not work for terminal editors; and will not work at all when the DRb client/server reside on different computers.
These limitations will be addressed in later releases.
pry-remote is a project by Mon Ouie. See the actual project page here.