From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2003-11-27T02:02:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Backtrace without skips needed


"Tobias Peters" <tpeters@invalid.uni-oldenburg.de> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:bq2i45$dcb$1@newssrv2.hrz.uni-oldenburg.de...
> Thank you for your replies.
>
> What I was really hoping for a is a command line switch to the ruby
> interpreter, i.e. something that I do not need to modify my source for.
>
> Maybe I can require some file on the command line with
> -r complete_backtrace that implements $!.backtrace printing
> in an atexit handler? Otherwise, I plan to modify my ruby interpreter to
> make the maximum number of stack frames printed configurable via
> environment variable.

Before you start, maybe Matz could commment on the idea of having a
~/.rubyrc that controls interpreter bahavior (of course together with a
switch that allows for ignoring this file).  Then maybe he / we / you
implement this feature for the complete runtime and all / several command
line switches.

Kind regards

    robert