debugger and binding.b are blocking in rspec, and not binding.pry for instance

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
42/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
ruby
Domain
devtools, testing

Research direction

Start with the provided RSpec reproduction and compare the debugger and binding.b entry points with binding.pry while the background request is running. Check whether the preload setup affects the behavior; done means debugger and binding.b no longer block those requests in the reproduction.

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Description

enhancement

Your environment

  • ruby -v: ruby 3.0.2p107 (2021-07-07 revision 0db68f0233) [x86_64-darwin20]
  • rdbg -v: rdbg 1.3.4

Describe the bug

When I do debugger or binding.b in my tests it blocks the background requests

To Reproduce

For instance:

require "rails_helper"

RSpec.describe "Approvals" do
  let!(:user) { create(:user) }
  let!(:approved_user) { create(:user) }

  before { create(:event, :approved, user: approved_user) }

  it "can approve events" do
    system_login_as(user)
    binding.b
  end
end

Expected behavior

Requests are not blocked, like what binding.pry does

Additional context

I'm using the preload, maybe that's related

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