From: Brian Marick <marick@...>
Date: 2001-08-02T02:23:14+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:18978] ANN: Ruby-trace 0.1.2

Ruby-trace is a library that makes you add code like this to your app:

  $trace.announce "Using alternate capability file '#{chosen}'."

In return, you get messages like this:

  netapp.rb:13:in `initialize'
  = announce: Using alternate capability file 'alt.cap'.

You get a lot of control about which messages are displayed, where they go,
how they're formatted, etc. 

I've tried to make Ruby-trace like Ruby itself: simple things are simple,
complex things are possible. 

The home page is here:
<http://visibleworkings.com/ruby-trace/>
There's a one-page blurb there, a pretty substantial user's guide, and
zip/tar archives.

As this is my first substantial Ruby application, please let me know if
anything in it could be more idiomatically Ruby-like, as well as bugs,
feature requests, roughness in the documentation, etc.

I've only tested this against Ruby 1.6.3 on NT/cygwin. 


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