From: David Corbin <dcorbin@...>
Date: 2005-05-24T19:39:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Debugger. Remove catchpoint?

On Monday 23 May 2005 12:40 am, Assaph Mehr wrote:
> Do you mean start again from the top? 

Yes

> No way that I know of, and 
> considering the effort it'll take to bring everything to the state it
> was before the program started (class definitions, redefinitions,
> globals, threads etc) I doubt it's any better than just restarting the
> debugger and setting a breakpoint.

Except it's lots of typing for me.  Especially if I have a lot of breakpoints.  
And I have a hard time leaving the debugger because of the stupid "Really 
quit?" (My fingers just have not learned to say Y.  I find myself looping 
through that 2 or 3 times everytime I want to stop the debugger.

> BTW, I find unit-tests plus the occasional application of breakpoint
> (http://ruby-breakpoint.rubyforge.org, available as a gem) much better
> than traditional debugging, both immediately and in the long run.

I'm a big fan of unit tests, and I continue to strive to write better smaller 
ones, but I have yet to reach the 'mythical' point where a debugger is not 
helpful.  As for breakpoint, maybe I have to adapt, but not being able to 
step through code is just not the same.

>
> HTH,
> Assaph