From: Tom Clarke <tom@...2i.com>
Date: 2003-07-03T08:00:31+09:00
Subject: Re: More error backtrace

I've been wondering for some time why it did this.

Just curious, what's the rationale for truncating it?

-Tom

On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 17:57, Brian Candler wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 06:43:03AM +0900, Nigel Gilbert wrote:
> > What I need to know are which lines of code are represented by "... 6 
> > levels...".  Is there any way of stopping ruby from abbreviating the 
> > backtrace like this?
> 
> in eval.c:
> 
> #define TRACE_MAX (TRACE_HEAD+TRACE_TAIL+5)
> #define TRACE_HEAD 8
> #define TRACE_TAIL 5
> 
> So you could change those constants. But easier, wrap your code in something
> like this:
> 
>   begin
>     ... do your code
>   rescue Exception => e
>     puts "#{e} (#{e.class})\n#{e.backtrace.join("\n")}"
>   end
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Brian.
> 
>