From: Brian Palmer <brian@...>
Date: 2004-10-11T13:09:55+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] dev-utils v1.0

I love it, the breakpoints feature is going to get heavy use right here, 
let me tell you. As a quick note, you might put a mention in your docs 
for us poor Windows Rubyists that ^Z is in fact the EOF character in 
Windows/DOS, not ^D. Cheers.

- Brian Palmer


Gavin Sinclair wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>It's with great relief that I finally release dev-utils 1.0.  Never
>have I put so much effort into a project with so little code.  (That's
>because the effort was wasted on documentation...)
>
>It's gem-only at the moment.  Within a few days, I'll release 1.0.1
>complete with tarball, and see its way clear to the RPA.  For now,
>though, it's 4am and I'm off to bed.
>
>BTW, it depends on newly-released extensions-0.5.  I'll be in touch,
>Mauricio :)
>
>Cheers,
>Gavin
>
>
>About dev-utils:
>
>  With dev-utils/debug you can:
>  
>     * Escape to an IRB session from a running program.
>
>  breakpoint
>  breakpoint 'Person#name'           # Identify it when it happens.
>  breakpoint { @name }               # Default return value.
>
>     * Access a no-config logfile for debugging.
>
>  debug 'Database connection established'   # Look in ./debug.log
>
>     * Trace expressions in that logfile.
>
>  trace 'x + y'
>  trace 'Process.pid'
>  trace 'names', :pp                 # Pretty-print.
>  trace 'page_structure', :yaml      # YAML representation.
>
>Home page:         http://dev-utils.rubyforge.org
>Project page:      http://rubyforge.org/projects/dev-utils
>Download:          http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=270
>API Documentation: http://dev-utils.rubyforge.org/api
>
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