From: Florian Gross <flgr@...>
Date: 2004-10-13T05:34:35+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] breakpoint.rb -- now with remote debugging

Alexey Verkhovsky wrote:

> 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!

Glad I could provide something useful. :)

BTW, have you tested the remote debugging facilities yet? Any 
suggestions / problems?

> 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).

alias :bp :breakpoint ought to work. You will have to do the require 
manually, however. (But it should not cause any overhead anyway.)

Regards,
Florian Gross