From: Christoph Neubauer <christoph.neubauer@...>
Date: 2004-07-19T22:17:12+09:00
Subject: (Simple) Tracing with Ruby

Hi Rubyists !

I'm  using ruby 1.6.8 (2002-12-24) [i586-mswin32]
What I tinkered for tracing is (simplified) this:

#begin definition
def traceEntry (*args)
    puts "\n"
    puts ("ENTRY " + caller[0])
    args.each {|arg| puts ("ARG: " + arg.to_s)}
end

def traceExit
    puts ("EXIT " + caller[0])
    puts "\n"
end
#end definition

#begin usage
def method1 (arg1 = 0, arg2 = false, arg3 = 'hello')
traceEntry (arg1, arg2, arg3)
    # do some stuff
traceExit
end

method1
method1 (1, true, 'world')
#end usage

It produces this:

#begin output

ENTRY SimpleTracingWithRuby.rb:18:in `method1'
ARG: 0
ARG: false
ARG: hello
EXIT SimpleTracingWithRuby.rb:20:in `method1'


ENTRY SimpleTracingWithRuby.rb:18:in `method1'
ARG: 1
ARG: true
ARG: world
EXIT SimpleTracingWithRuby.rb:20:in `method1'

#end output

My question is:
How do I know the names of the formal arguments of the actual caller of
TraceEntry ?
Or by Example:

#begin desired usage
def method1 (arg1 = 1, arg2 = true, arg3 = 'hello')
traceEntry
    # do some stuff
traceExit
end
#end desired usage

#begin desired output

ENTRY SimpleTracingWithRuby.rb:18:in `method1'
arg1: 0
arg2: false
arg3: hello
EXIT SimpleTracingWithRuby.rb:20:in `method1'


ENTRY SimpleTracingWithRuby.rb:18:in `method1'
arg1: 1
arg2: true
arg3: world
EXIT SimpleTracingWithRuby.rb:20:in `method1'

#end desired output

Any ideas welcomed !
Chris