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Pry ![Alt text](http://dl.dropbox.com/u/26521875/Solid%20Light%20%281%29.png)
=============
(C) John Mair (banisterfiend) 2011 (C) John Mair (banisterfiend) 2011
_Ruby voyeurism_ _Get to the code_
Pry is a powerful alternative to the standard IRB shell for Ruby. It is Pry is a powerful alternative to the standard IRB shell for Ruby. It is
written from scratch to provide a number of advanced features, some of written from scratch to provide a number of advanced features, some of
these include: these include:
* Syntax higlighting
* Navigation around state (`cd`, `ls` and friends)
* Runtime invocation * Runtime invocation
* Syntax highlighting
* Command shell integration * Command shell integration
* Source code browsing (including core C source with the pry-doc gem) * Source code browsing (including core C source with the pry-doc gem)
* Documentation browsing * Documentation browsing
* Exotic object support (BasicObject instances, IClasses, ...) * Exotic object support (BasicObject instances, IClasses, ...)
* A Powerful and flexible command system * A Powerful and flexible command system
* Gisting ability * Ability to view and replay history
* Many convenience commands * Many convenience commands inspired by IPython and SLIME
Pry is a Ruby REPL (Read-Eval-Print-Loop) that specializes in the interactive
manipulation of objects during the running of a program.
In some sense it is the opposite of IRB in that you bring a REPL
session to your code (with Pry) instead of bringing your code to a
REPL session (as with IRB).
It is not based on the IRB codebase, and implements some unique REPL
commands such as `show-method`, `show-doc`, `ls` and `cd` (type `help`
to get a full list).
Pry is also fairly flexible and allows significant user Pry is also fairly flexible and allows significant user
[customization](http://rdoc.info/github/banister/pry/master/file/wiki/Customizing-pry.md). It [customization](http://rdoc.info/github/banister/pry/master/file/wiki/Customizing-pry.md). It