From: "trans.  (T. Onoma)" <transami@...>
Date: 2004-09-16T12:41:32+09:00
Subject: Re: debig an infinite loop

On Tuesday 14 September 2004 12:48 am, Gavin Sinclair wrote:
> transami wrote:
> > Pointers on debug'n, especially tracking an infinite loop.
>
> My preferred method of debugging is to open an irb shell from the program.
>  This lets you evaluate local variables, etc.  See Florian Weber's recent
> "breakpoint.rb" announcement.
>
>   loop do
>     ...
>     breakpoint if some_condition
>     ...
>   end

Yes, that seems pretty nice. I plan to use that.

> For an infinite loop, I'm guessing printf-debugging would help as well.
> Thus: puts/logger/log4r.

Although I did figure it out already, it was tricky b/c the loop was occurring 
in someone else's library.

> > Also is there a Ruby "binding" for ddd?
>
> I sincerely doubt it.

Too bad.

Thanks,
T.

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