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Last Updated: 2024-04-18
(This seems Ruby specific, but it's not - hang on in there)
I wanted to delete a problematic command in pry (an interactive Ruby REPL
console). Therefore in my ~/.pryrc I added this code.
dot_command = /\.(.*)/
Pry.commands.delete(dot_command)
I also wanted to ensure this configuration was available on my server for a
particular Rails project, so I added a config/initializers/pry.rb within this
project.
This caused me to observe the following error whenever I opened a pry session in this project (but not elsewhere):
ArgumentError: Cannot find a command: '(?-mix:\.(.*))'!
The issue was that the configuration code (being destructive) could not be run twice in a row without error.
Pry.commands.delete(dot_command)
The solution was to suppress the global rc file in this config/initializers/pry.rb file
Pry.config.should_load_rc = false