Using pry in a staging environment

Question

My team has several staging servers that run against production data. I'm interested in using pry in a staging environment for better debugging.

Is there a tool for this? pry-remote looks like it might fit, but most people I've seen are using it locally with pow or foreman rather than against a remote server, so I'm not sure that's what its for. There's an unanswered question with this same idea.

If there wasn't a tool for this, I was thinking I might be able to just SSH into the server and run rails server, but I suspect that might interact weirdly with nginx or something, so I'd have to be more careful with this approach.

Answer 1

I had some trouble getting pry-remote working, so I ended up sshing in and starting pry from there. The only things I needed to do were 1) learn to start unicorn (we use a different server when developing locally) 2) prevent timeouts on unicorn + nginx. Thanks to @BillyChan for first recommending this.