From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2005-08-11T17:16:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Bindings at the time of Exceptions

Adam Sanderson wrote:
> I always thought it would be neat to be able to get the binding at the
> time an exception was raised so that one could see the state the stack
> was in when an exception occurred.

Note, that you can view the stack trace already with standard means:

10:11:06 [c]: ruby -e 'def f() raise "error" end; begin;f;rescue Exception
=> e; puts e.backtrace; end'
-e:1:in `f'
-e:1

> It would be nice list the local variables and values at the time of
> the exception for instance.  Can anyone think of some trickery to do
> this? I think it would be  of great use for debugging and whatnot, and
> massive points for cool ruby hackery ;)
>   .adam sanderson

See Joel's solution.

Kind regards

    robert