From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2009-08-07T01:22:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Any tool for examine ruby's thread?

Caleb Clausen wrote:
> On 8/6/09, femto Zheng <femtowin@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Yes,I've found the Thread.list fulfills my needs,Thanks.
>> do you have any means for examning every thread's stacktrace?
> 
> There does not seem to be a way to get the backtrace of another thread
> -- even from within the debugger. This is a shame, because as you say
> it's useful for debugging. There ought to be a Thread#caller or
> Thread#backtrace method, which works like #caller but on another
> thread.

IIRC this has been requested and discussed a few times, and it might be 
available in development versions of 1.9.2[1], but not 1.8.x, AFAIK.

[1] http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/977

[2] google "ruby Thread#backtrace" for more discussion.

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