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Practice Makes Perfect

DylanC on May 09, 2019

Six weeks go by quickly, especially when you’re learning a skill that plunges you ever deeper into an endless world of excitement. Looking back, I ...
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Paula

Great post, fellow Flatiron student! I learned things about Pry from you! I had never dug into the documentation on pry to learn the extent of other commands one can use. Kudos on your blog post!

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DylanC

Thanks!

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Andy Zhao (he/him)

Nice! Didn't know about play. One of my favorite commands is !, which clears the input. It's useful if you're writing like a do...end block, and have a typo but hit enter already.

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DylanC

Love ! too. Saves so much time instead of: kill pry, retrigger pry, try again. What are some of your other favorites?

I haven't messed around with all of the commands as much as I've wanted to yet.

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beernutz

Maybe for the next post you could tell us more about what PRY is? Is it a terminal command? What language does it operate on? Show us an example of the input and output?

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DylanC

Awesome suggestions. Thanks. I'll definitely give it a go.