The gem 
  better_errors
  
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 offers a detailed error page with an interactive 
  REPL
  
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 for better debugging.
I had the issue that on a few projects with Ruby 2.5.8, the REPL was not shown.
Solution
To make the REPL work properly with this Ruby version I had to update the gem 
  binding_of_caller
  
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 to at least version 0.8.0.
From the better_errors Show archive.org snapshot docs:
binding_of_caller is optional, but is necessary to use Better Errors' advanced features (REPL, local/instance variable inspection, pretty stack frame names).
Posted by Johanna Schalk to makandra dev (2021-10-06 12:56)