Running byebug with Heroku local

Im trying to run byebug so that it works with heroku local. By default, the breakpoints don't give me access to an irb console like they might if I was using rails s. I've tried byebug remote debugging as described here but something about running the byebug server slows my local server down to a crawl and it's unusable. Is there anyway to get byebug to work with Heroku local? Is there any alternative debugging solution that works well for Rails and Heroku Local?

Thank you.