binding.pry from within rails doesn't reload! (Rails 5.1.4 / ruby 2.4.2p198)

[jm3]

I've reviewed the docs, the wiki, and stack overflow posts, but am still baffled. Maybe I missed something obvious:

I've bundled pry-rails (0.11.3), which bundles pry(0.10.4). rails c correctly invokes pry, but calling binding.pry from within Rails, e.g. from with a test, invokes pry, but reload! does not work:

NoMethodError: undefined method `reload!' for SolventLayerCache:Class
Did you mean?  load

Does pry have some alternate invocation besides binding.pry that I'm supposed to be using from within my code that will allow whatever Rails / IRB magic makes reload! work?

[rf-]

Recent versions of Rails (like ones from the last few years, at least) only mix in reload! and friends in the top-level REPL context, as opposed to mixing them into Object, which means they won't be available if you have a binding.pry session in the context of a specific class. You might be able to make it work by running extend Rails::ConsoleMethods after starting the session (possibly after running require "rails/console/app" and require "rails/console/helpers"). If that doesn't help then feel free to open an issue on pry-rails and we could discuss ways of making this easier.

[jm3]

Got it, thanks for the quick answer!