Question

Can I drop to an IRB prompt from a running Ruby script?

I want to run a script, but then have it give me an IRB prompt at a point in the program with the current state of the program, but not just by running rdebug and having a breakpoint.

Answer 1

you can use ruby-debug to get access to irb

require 'rubygems'
require 'ruby-debug'
x = 23
puts "welcome"
debugger
puts "end"

when program reaches debugger you will get access to irb.