Tool for Program Visualization ?

[Gilbert Rebhan]

Hi,

coming to Ruby from Java i'm lookin for a tool
similar to =

http://cs.joensuu.fi/jeliot/index.php

which is for java only.

Any tools available ?
Thanks for any hints!!

Regards, Gilbert

 

[benjohn]

Hi,

coming to Ruby from Java i'm lookin for a tool
similar to =

http://cs.joensuu.fi/jeliot/index.php

which is for java only.

Any tools available ?
Thanks for any hints!!

Regards, Gilbert

I'm afraid I don't know of anything like that, but others may.

Looking at the tool, do you actually find that at all useful? It's
kind of fun, but does it help you to see what's going on? I wonder if
you'd be better off with a normal graphical debugger (Komodo, for Ruby,
say.). They usually give much the same kind of information about the
virtual machine's states, but don't act out an animated story of how
those changes occur.

 

[Gilbert Rebhan]

Looking at the tool, do you actually find that at all useful? It's
kind of fun, but does it help you to see what's going on?

it's helpful to see what's going on. also great for
a quick test of algorithms, it's like an algorithm theatre ;-)

I wonder if
you'd be better off with a normal graphical debugger (Komodo, for Ruby,
say.)

Komodo ain't free. I'm looking for a free tool.
Are there free graphical debuggers around for ruby ?!

They usually give much the same kind of information about the
virtual machine's states, but don't act out an animated story of how
those changes occur.

working with eclipse, i know the benefits of a debugger,
but the RDT plugins are not the same level as the JDT yet.

Regards, Gilbert

 

[Stephen Kellett]

coming to Ruby from Java i'm lookin for a tool
similar to =

http://cs.joensuu.fi/jeliot/index.php

Er, not the same. But if a flow tracer will do (shows all calls,
returns, lines, exceptions etc, plus all locals and all params) then
take a look at Ruby Bug Validator.

http://www.softwareverify.com/ruby/flow_tracer/index.html

Stephen

 

[Zev Blut]

coming to Ruby from Java i'm lookin for a tool
similar to =3D =

http://cs.joensuu.fi/jeliot/index.php

which is for java only.

Any tools available ?

That looks pretty cool. Although, it is text based you can use the
ruby tracer tool. Simply run

"ruby -r tracer yourcode.rb"

to see the textual output of what Ruby is doing. If I were to attempt
making Jeliot for Ruby I would probably use this as a base.

Cheers,
Zev

 

[Gilbert Rebhan]

Hi,

That looks pretty cool. Although, it is text based you can use the
ruby tracer tool. Simply run

"ruby -r tracer yourcode.rb"

to see the textual output of what Ruby is doing. If I were to attempt
making Jeliot for Ruby I would probably use this as a base.

ok, thanks didn't know of that.
i'll give it a try.

Regards, Gilbert

 

[Gilbert Rebhan]

Hi,

Er, not the same. But if a flow tracer will do (shows all calls,
returns, lines, exceptions etc, plus all locals and all params) then
take a look at Ruby Bug Validator.

http://www.softwareverify.com/ruby/flow_tracer/index.html

Thanks for the tip, but i prefer a free tool,
Open Source if possible.
I have no 299 bucks around ;-)

Regards, Gilbert