From: Jay Levitt <jay+news@...>
Date: 2007-10-21T05:40:10+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] LiveConsole 0.1.0 -- eval code against a running program with IRB

On Sun, 21 Oct 2007 05:28:42 +0900, Pete Elmore wrote:

> LiveConsole is a library for providing IRB over a TCP connection .  If
> you add it to your application, you can run arbitrary code against
> your application.  For example, you can:
>         * Inspect the state of a running application
>         * Change the state of the application
>         * Patch code on the fly, without a restart.

That's beautiful!  Does it work with Rails and/or ruby-debug?  All three
together would be the holy grail for debuggability.

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