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I actually follow a very similar pattern when developing in both Ruby and Clojure. I particularly like it in Clojure because I can run `(doc function-name)` to get some documentation on the function I intend to use (I can never remember the order of arguments!!).

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The pry equivalents are show-doc and show-source.

They don't always work depending on configuration, but it's very nice when they do. They can even go far enough to show the C source for builtins.

I do this a lot in the ipython REPL. You can type "method_name?" and see the docstring and some other basic info about the method (like args), its extremely helpful.

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