From: Jamis Buck <jgb3@...>
Date: 2004-11-24T00:36:17+09:00
Subject: Re: [SOLUTION] Object Browser (#8)

Florian Gross wrote:
> Jamis Buck wrote:
> 
>> http://ruby.jamisbuck.org/objbrowser-03.png
>>   This is the same, drilling down to inspect the constants defined in
>> the class of one of the instance variables.
>>
>> I think something like this (maybe used in conjunction with the
>> breakpoint and assert concepts that have been discussed on this list)
>> would be useful in debugging, especially if the ability to modify values
>> were added. I'm still hoping someone submits a nicer solution to the
>> quiz than mine, since mine is pretty rough, and is really only half 
>> done. :)
> 
> 
> I agree heavily. This looks very interesting. Would you be interested in 
> patching this so it can work with Breakpoints? I can not do it myself 
> unfortunately as GTK is completely screwed on this machine and I think I 
> can only fix that by reinstalling Windows...
> 
> The required changes would basically be using  drb_gateway.evaluate(nil, 
> "methods")  instead of directly doing examined_obj.methods and so on.

I'd be happy to make that change, Florian, but I think it might be 
better to combine my approach with Brian's. His is much prettier, for 
one thing, but it also has the ability to navigate to specific instances 
of a class, which is nice.

Unfortunately, I'm racing to get Net::SSH ready to release (I wanted to 
do a release before Thanksgiving, but I'm not sure that'll happen). Then 
I need to work on Net::SFTP... If no one has tackled this by the time 
I'm done with SFTP, I'll take another look at it.

- Jamis

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