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Discussion on: How to become better at reading and debugging code

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Kobe Raypole

Understanding the problem is supremely important, But proper tooling can also be the difference between feeling lost and finding the source of the problem.

I use pry for rails applications!

Tons of awesome features like stepping through breakpoints, the whereami method, and show-stack!

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Ravi Ojha

Yes! Right tools can make help visualize the code execution flow and data at each step, making it easier to debug.