From: Wayne Vucenic Date: 2005-12-08T02:33:47+09:00 Subject: Re: ArachnoRuby -- a professional Ruby IDE Hey Christer, > Could you please explain slimeline and debugger quick mode ? slimeline mode is for conserving screen real estate, especially on 1024x768 monitors. It has options to hide the tabs at the sides of the window, and to hide various other UI elements, to give the maximum amount of space to the main window. It's a nice idea, but personally I don't use it even on my 1024x768 laptop because I really like seeing all the tools and other UI elements. The default debugger mode is quick mode, in which it doesn't have as much information about stack frames other than the current one. I don't believe this has any effect when you're debugging in the current stack frame. It only makes a difference when you use the debugger to navigate to previous stack frames (that is, the method that called the current method, or earlier callers.) When quick mode is turned off, the debugger runs slower, but it gets more information on previous stack frames. (I hope I got this right... Lothar explained this to me once, and this is my understanding of what he said.) In practice I don't pay a lot of attention to whether or not I'm in quick mode. Non-quick mode doesn't seem to slow the debugger down that much (at least for small programs), but then again I haven't noticed a huge amount of difference in the info I get on previous stack frames. > Have you tried Arachno in a Rails project ? I do all my Rails work in Arachno, since it's such a great environment. I've done some Rails debugging in Arachno, using both of the techniques described at: http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/How+To+Use+Arachno+Ruby+IDE+with+Rails I haven't done a ton of Rails debugging, mostly because I don't need a debugger for most of my Rails work, but when I have debugged Rails programs in Arachno it's been plenty fast. Take care, Wayne --- Wayne Vucenic No Bugs Software "Ruby and C++ Agile Contract Programming in Silicon Valley" On 12/7/05, Christer Nilsson wrote: > Wayne! > > I agree with your comment on Arachno. It's amazing that one person, > Lothar, can achieve so much. > > Could you please explain slimeline and debugger quick mode ? > Have you tried Arachno in a Rails project ? > > Christer > > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > >