Debugging

Learn how to debug your app using byebug.

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Byebug debugger

No chapter on testing would be complete without some mention of how to debug our application when it is not behaving as we would expect. Imagine there is a problem with our welcome_controller.rb.

Let’s use the byebug debugger that is included as standard with a Rails app. Let’s add a byebug breakpoint to our welcome_controller.rb:

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