From: "James F.Hranicky" <jfh@...>
Date: 2002-10-22T20:37:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Is the debugger broken?

On Mon, 21 Oct 2002 18:15:15 +0900
Philipp Meier <meier@meisterbohne.de> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 02:44:13PM +0900, Gavin Sinclair wrote:
> 
> > The line that says "clear_test_table()" is line 139.  I want to set a
> > breakpoint there.  The transcript of my debugging session is below.  Long story
> > short: the debugger failed to stop at the prescribed breakpoint.  It
> > *definitely* passed through it, because that very method was judged by TestUnit
> > to have failed.
> > 
> > It's pointless me posting all my source code for inspection, because it's long
> > and dependent on database operations.  I want to know if other people have had
> > similar experiences of breakpoints not being honoured.  If it is useful, I can
> > later try to produce a small program that reproduces the error.
> 
> I had the same experience especially with the debugger and TestUnit.
> But I didn't have the time to investigate why the debugger skipped my
> breakpoints. So I continued using my beloved debug-by-logging methology.

I've just run into this problem this morning. The pattern I seem to be
seeing is this:

	- breakpoints set in main file work
	- breakpoint set by specifiying 

		b file.rb:<lineno>

	  seem to work

	- breakpoints set in different file upon stepping into that file like so

		b <lineno>

	  do not seem to work

	- breakpoint set by specifying Class::method

		b Foo::bar

	  do not seem to work

Jim