From: Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@...>
Date: 2006-02-24T10:42:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Q: How to initialize debugger's state when starting


On Feb 23, 2006, at 7:53 PM, Matthias Georgi wrote:

> A short hack.
> Make a copy of debug.rb and put these lines right after the Context
> class.
>
> class Context
>   alias original_readline readline
>   def readline(prompt, hist)
>     @rc_file ||= File.readlines("debug.rc")
>     if @rc_file.empty?
>       original_readline(prompt, hist)
>     else
>       @rc_file.shift
>     end
>   end
> end
>
> Now create a file debug.rc with your desired breakpoint:
> b 100
> b 200
>
> Start the debugger:
> ruby -r./debug myscript.rb
>
>

Clever. I hope  if someone comes up with a clean way to do this it  
gets merged in. It seems like a good idea.