When I am not touching front-end code, I pretty much live in the testing environment when doing development. I almost never drop into to dev at all. I find that since dev requires setting up state, why not just have a test case ready that has it and drop in using pry?

So, the start of my debugging often begins with:

iex -S mix test --trace /path/to/test:100

Or, since someone introduced me to dbg it’s turned into:

iex --dbg pry -S mix test --trace /path/to/test:100

I’m in the process of refining some little QoL things and one of the kinda annoying things in this flow is that an iex shell opens even in the absence of IEx.pry() or dbg(). It’s not the worst thing in world as a quick ctrl + c x2 gets me out of there. Still, is there a way to use the same command to only pop the iex session if I include some kind of pry?

The nice thing about this is that I always just use one command to figure off my single tests.

Is there a way to accomplish this?