From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2004-10-13T16:19:03+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] dev-utils v1.0.1

On Wednesday, October 13, 2004, 3:49:35 PM, Charles wrote:

>> 
>>      * 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.
>> 

> I don't know if this was mentioned before, but even though there is no
> need for default configuration, it would be nice if there was a way to
> change the debug log if necessary.  For instance if your running two
> different ruby scripts in the same directory that both use debug.log is
> there a way to specify a different log name for each one?  No 
> configuration necessary by default is great but there are cases it 
> becomes necessary.

It's planned.  The fact that someone actually wants it (for personal
use, I couldn't care less) will hurry it up :)

Gavin