From: Mikael Brockman <mikael@...>
Date: 2004-10-13T05:19:54+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] breakpoint.rb -- now with remote debugging

Alexey Verkhovsky <alex@verk.info> writes:

> On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 18:29, Florian Gross wrote:
> > This new version includes support for remote debugging via DRb. Using 
> > this you can now also debug your CGI and Rails applications
> 
> Thank you SO much!
> 
> One small inconvenience that I have with this library is that it takes
> some typing to set a breakpoint.
> 
> Say I have a util.rb file that is included more or less everywhere in my
> app, and I would like to include there something like this:
> 
> def bp
>   require 'breakpoint'
>   breakpoint
> end
> 
> so that setting a breakpoint would be simply 'bp'
> 
> This doesn't work, of course, because it opens irb in a wrong stack
> frame (within bp method).
> 
> Any Ruby black magic to somehow inline it in the right stack frame?

Maybe you could use Florian Gro�'s Binding.of_caller to evaluate
'breakpoint' in the caller's binding.