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byebug and ruby 2.2.3


When trying to use byebug for the first time with ruby 2.2.3 I get

NameError:
      undefined local variable or method `byebug'

I'm confused, here's are some diagnostics:

ruby --version
ruby 2.2.3p173 (2015-08-18 revision 51636) [x86_64-darwin14]

cat Gemfile | grep bye
gem 'byebug'

gem list | grep bye
byebug (8.2.1, 8.2.0)

#the command I'm using to run my ruby code is
rspec *spec.rb --tag focus
#also tried prepending bundle exec

Solution

  • Figure it out. I needed this line:

    require 'byebug'; byebug;
    

    in my ruby code.