Disable pry and exit debugger without killing the main program in Ruby

You ever ran into a situation where you had a huge loop running and you put a binding.pry within that loop for debugging and wondered how the hell you would exit the debugger?

The answer is simple

disable-pry is your saviour.!

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This has got its downside though, this will disable any further invocations of the pry again.

Under the hood its disabling the whole pry and setting ENV['DISABLE_PRY'] = true

To re-enable pry for any further debugging you will have to clear the ENV var by ENV['DISABLE_PRY'] = nil

I have defined a helper method enable_pry with the following inside my .pryrc for my convenience.

def enable_pry
  ENV['DISABLE_PRY'] = nil
end

Credits where its due: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8015531/how-do-i-step-out-of-a-loop-with-ruby-pry

Happy coding.!!