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Comparison with Pry

👋 IRB is on a mission to match feature parity with Pry. This document is here to help us track the similarities and differences between the two.

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Feature Pry IRB Note
Supported Rubies >= 2.0 >= 2.7
Source code browsing show-source show_source IRB's show_source can't display C source. See #664
Document browsing ri show_doc
Live help system help or command_name --help help IRB doesn't support detailed descriptions for individual commands yet
Open methods in editors edit edit
Syntax highlighting Yes Yes
Command shell integration Yes No Currently, there's no plan to support such features in IRB
Navigation - cd object to enter object
- cd .. to leave the current object
- nesting to list nesting levels
- pushws object
- popws
- workspaces
- cd object/cd .. (since 1.14.0)
We plan to refine IRB's commands in the future
Runtime invocation binding.pry binding.irb
Command system Yes No Planned in #513 and #588
Input history Comprehensive support Supports retrieving previous input and the history command The history command doesn't support as many flags yet, but contributions are welcome.
Pager support Command output and return value Command output and return value
Debugger integration With byebug through pry-byebug gem Supports irb:rdbg sessions
Rails console Through pry-rails gem Rails' default Rails console with IRB doesn't have commands like show-routes or show-models