how do you change byebug history location

Question

how can I tell byebug to log the history to /tmp/.byebug_history instead of it's default location.

I tried looking in bye bug readme but didn't find an answer

anybody know. .. .? – american-ninja-warrior Oct 13 '19 at 13:42 — american-ninja-warrior, Oct 13 '19 at 13:42

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 18 '20 at 23:40

Byebug looks for a .byebugrc file in your home directory and in your current directory. You can put lines like set <name> <value> in it. The possible settings are documented at https://edgeguides.rubyonrails.org/debugging_rails_applications.html#debugging-with-the-byebug-gem-settings or you can run help set in Byebug to get the documentation. The setting you want is histfile.

So try creating .byebugrc in your home directory with these contents:

set histfile /tmp/.byebug_history

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