From: "Mehr, Assaph (Assaph)" <assaph@...>
Date: 2004-04-06T12:19:45+09:00
Subject: Re: line directives

> Does ruby support anything like #line directives in C or Perl? or
> any other way to dynamically change what ruby thinks is the current
> sourcefile and sourceline in its warning and error reporting?

What exactly do you need it for?
If it's for reporting exceptions, you can manipulate the info returned
by Kernel::caller with the third argument of Kernel::raise. E.g.:

# define stuff for a nice call stack:
irb(main):007:0> def f
irb(main):008:1>   g
irb(main):009:1> end
=> nil
irb(main):014:0> def g
irb(main):015:1>   raise StandardError
irb(main):016:1> end
=> nil
irb(main):017:0> f
StandardError: StandardError
        from (irb):15:in `g'
        from (irb):8:in `f'
        from (irb):17

# but if we define g to muck up the caller argument:
irb(main):010:0> def g
irb(main):011:1> 	 raise StandardError, "",
"my_ficticious_script:imaginary_line: Go look here!\n\t" + caller[1]
irb(main):012:1> end
=> nil
irb(main):013:0> f
StandardError:
        from my_ficticious_script:imaginary_line: Go look here!
        (irb):13