Exiting rails console with 'n'

Question

I noticed a weird thing. I accidentally typed:

@a = n

which led to exit of rails console.

On further experimenting I found out even if I just do (in console)

The console exits. If I try any other character, I get error as expected.

a
# => NameError: undefined local variable or method `a' for main:Object

I was not able to find any documentaion that stated n is used to exit rails console. Is this normal? Or my console is breaking cause of some thing that I dont understand at all?

Versions:

ruby 1.8.7 (2012-06-29 patchlevel 370) [x86_64-linux]
Rails 3.2.13

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 01 '14 at 07:25

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This is a known issue in debugger. Go through here https://github.com/cldwalker/debugger/issues/133 . This is also with pry https://github.com/nixme/pry-debugger/issues/55 .

answered Sep 01 '14 at 07:25

Dipak Gupta

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That makes total sense. Thanks :) – shivam Sep 01 '14 at 07:27

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 01 '14 at 07:19

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Well, works as expected (undefined local ...) for me at least. Ruby 1.9.3

Consider reinstalling ruby, maybe? :)

answered Sep 01 '14 at 07:19

Dmitri

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yeah thats what even I was expecting, Dont know why its acting so weird in my case. – shivam Sep 01 '14 at 07:20
what is your `gem env`, `rails` version if you installed all properly it should not happen – Rajarshi Das Sep 01 '14 at 07:22

Exiting rails console with 'n'

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