From: Eero Saynatkari <ruby-forum-reg@...>
Date: 2006-01-23T05:08:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Debugging endless loops

Alexey Verkhovsky wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Say, we have a Ruby app going into an endless loop (or perhaps a thread
> deadlock) mode. Let us further assume that it happens in production and
> you don't know how to reproduce it anywhere else. How would you debug 
> this?
> 
> Debugging these conditions in Java is trivial because of the "thread
> dump" feature of JVM (where you send a kill -3 signal to a JVM process
> and it spits out stack tracces of all threads to stdout). In any
> environemnt where you can attach a debugger to a running app, it is not
> heinously difficult either (although it may be problematic to attach a
> debugger to a productiuon environment).
> 
> But what do I do if it's Ruby?

Can you do ruby -rdebug program.rb instead of running it normally?

> Alex Verkhovsky


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