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Keith Schacht
Keith Schacht

Reputation: 1993

In rails automated testing how do I spawn the console?

I'm writing some automated tests for an app using rails 3.1. One of my tests is failing and at the point of failure I want to be able to jump into the rails console and inspect the state of things. Leading up to this assertion a lot of objects were created and states were changed.

After the test suite finishes running the test database is cleared.

I remember there was some way to insert a breakpoint in the test file or something similar which would throw me into the console. I've done a ton of googling and can't find it.

Anyone?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 329

Answers (2)

Pedro Nascimento
Pedro Nascimento

Reputation: 13906

Require ruby-debug on your Gemfile.

If on 1.8:

gem 'ruby-debug'

If on 1.9:

gem 'ruby-debug19', :require => 'ruby-debug'

Note that if you're on 1.9.3 requires a few tweaks.

Finally, put a debugger statement where you want to debug, and run your tests. It should popup a console.

I'd also recommend taking a look at pry, as Amadan stated.

Upvotes: 4

Amadan
Amadan

Reputation: 198418

Use Pry, and say binding.pry as a breakpoint.

You might like this Railscast.

Upvotes: 2

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