not entering pry from Cucumber 'Around' hook

[duncan-bayne]

I've added an Around hook to my Cucumber features that I had hoped would cause pry-rescue to start pry when an exception was thrown:

Around do |scenario, block|
  Pry::rescue do
    block.call
  end
end

The Around hook is definitely being called, however exceptions thrown within steps aren't rescued. E.g. this step:

When(/^I perform the action$/) do
  raise 'hell'
end

... causes the feature to fail, but doesn't drop me into pry at the console.

[duncan-bayne]

Some discussion here on SO: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19531678/using-pry-rescue-to-debug-exceptions-in-cucumber-steps

[duncan-bayne]

Closing this as haven't touched it in seven years :)