Sometimes taking an app down for debugging purposes is just not an option. Luckily a new tool called Hijack can provide a live IRB prompt for an existing Ruby process in the same way that Erlang provides hot swapping of code (changing the definition of a system while the system is still up and running).
Hijack (it’s still in a beta state, so be careful and don’t use it in production yet!) lets you to pry your way into a running Ruby process, where it drops you into a live IRB session running over DRB. Gone are the days of stopping live applications just to make a minor update! Read More
With people occasionally talking about “Code vs. Data”, it only makes sense that you should be able process over code as you would a string.