From: Sean Chittenden <sean@...>
Date: 2002-06-11T04:34:09+09:00
Subject: Re: mod_ruby and module space

> > > BTW: A nice thing I hadn't seen anywhere in the mod_ruby documentation;
> > > the lib/apache/ruby-debug.rb variant which outputs exception info to the
> > > client. (It really should have been default in the installation for
> > > mod_ruby_nubies like myself. :-)
> >
> > BTW, where is that module?  I'd like to set it up here.
> 
> In the mod_ruby-0.9.8 source, it is in the lib/apache/ directory. The .rb
> file contains documentation how to set it up. I think it is installed
> along with the normal one, so you just need to change the httpd.conf:
> 
> == Example of httpd.conf
> 
>   RubyRequire apache/ruby-debug
>   <Location /ruby-debug>
>   SetHandler ruby-object
>   RubyHandler Apache::RubyDebug.instance
>   </Location>
> 
> =end
> 
> The only differences is the RubyRequire and RubyHandler lines.

Along the lines of debugging and quality, there's another approach
worth considering here:

http://sean.chittenden.org/programming/ruby/mod_ruby/apachecon-2002/intro_to_mod_ruby/html/node35.html

Catching all web errors and saving them has done wonders for me for
squashing bugs.  One thing that I like about this approach is that I
don't have to worry about catching every exception in my scripts: I
just let this one script handle all uncaught exceptions and act
accordingly.  Keeps consistency high and the amount of typing low.
-sc

-- 
Sean Chittenden