Break points IN ruby code?

[Ken Hilton]

I've been having trouble setting break points in certain ruby constructs
when debugging. Is there a way in Ruby to cause program being run -rdebug
to manually issue a break so as to return control to the debugger at the
point I need it? (If not, I think this would be a great feature for a
future release of Ruby, IMHO.)

Thanks!

Ken.

 

[Martin Weber]

(...) Is there a way in Ruby to cause program being run -rdebug
to manually issue a break so as to return control to the debugger at the
point I need it? (...)

Finally a(nother) good use for a continuation

-Martin

 

[Ken Hilton]

Ok, clue me in. What pray-tell is a "continuation"???

Ken.

 

[Mark Sparshatt]

Ok, clue me in. What pray-tell is a "continuation"???

Ken.

This was recently discussed on this mailing list. If you search the
archives for "what is borges?" then you'll find some usefull links to
discussions about continuations

HTH

 

[Ken Hilton]

More precisely, break points set in certain constructs fail to be triggered,
e.g., a block attached to a method call, or break point set on a line in a
file that's required but has yet to loaded via its require '' statement.
Hope that helps.

Ken.

 

[Ken Hilton]

Can you please elaborate? The docs on continuation/callcc are pretty
opaque.

Thx,

Ken.