From: mathew <meta@...>
Date: 2005-09-07T05:01:28+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Ruby Debugging Article at IBM Developerworks

pat eyler wrote:
> http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/edu/os-dw-os-distruby-i.html
> 
> The next article is up.   (www.bugmenot.com if you don't want to register)
> 
> I'm always interested in feedback, if anyone wants to share. 

Something I always want to do is trigger the debugger from the program code.

That is, if I have the source file open in my editor, I'd like to be 
able to write something like

    trigger_debugger if $DEBUG

at various points in the source, and then run the program with Ruby in 
debug mode and have the debugger drop open at the right place. Much 
easier than having to set all the breakpoints manually in the debugger.

I'm fairly sure I once read how to do that, but I've been unable to 
relocate the information...

Similarly, it would be really useful to be able to start watching 
variables from the program code.


mathew
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