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Diffstat (limited to 'railties/doc/guides/debugging/debugging_rails_applications.txt')
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diff --git a/railties/doc/guides/debugging/debugging_rails_applications.txt b/railties/doc/guides/debugging/debugging_rails_applications.txt index af2ddd8a91..b327f6f177 100644 --- a/railties/doc/guides/debugging/debugging_rails_applications.txt +++ b/railties/doc/guides/debugging/debugging_rails_applications.txt @@ -129,13 +129,13 @@ At any time we can call the *backtrace* command (or alias *where*) to print the [source, shell] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- (rdb:5) where - #0 PostsController.index + #0 PostsController.index at line /PathTo/project/app/controllers/posts_controller.rb:6 - #1 Kernel.send + #1 Kernel.send at line /PathTo/project/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/base.rb:1175 - #2 ActionController::Base.perform_action_without_filters + #2 ActionController::Base.perform_action_without_filters at line /PathTo/project/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/base.rb:1175 - #3 ActionController::Filters::InstanceMethods.call_filters(chain#ActionController::Fil...,...) + #3 ActionController::Filters::InstanceMethods.call_filters(chain#ActionController::Fil...,...) at line /PathTo/project/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/filters.rb:617 ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- @@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ You move anywhere you want in this trace using the *frame n* command, where _n_ [source, shell] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- (rdb:5) frame 2 -#2 ActionController::Base.perform_action_without_filters +#2 ActionController::Base.perform_action_without_filters at line /PathTo/project/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/base.rb:1175 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- @@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ The available variables are the same as if we were running the code line by line Moving up and down the stack frame: You can use *up [n]* (*u* for abbreviated) and *down [n]* commands in order to change the context _n_ frames up or down the stack respectively. _n_ defaults to one. -=== Threads +=== Threads The debugger can list, stop, resume and switch between running threads, the command *thread* (or the abbreviated *th*) is used an allows the following options: @@ -340,11 +340,47 @@ In case we want deeper in the stack trace we can move single *steps* and go into A breakpoint makes your application stop whenever a certain point in the program is reached and the debugger shell is invoked in that line. -You can add breakpoints dynamically with the command *break* (or just *b*), there are 2 possible ways of adding breakpoints manually: +You can add breakpoints dynamically with the command *break* (or just *b*), there are 3 possible ways of adding breakpoints manually: +* *break line*: set breakpoint in the _line_ in the current source file. * *break file:line [if expression]*: set breakpoint in the _line_ number inside the _file_. If an _expression_ is given it must evaluated to _true_ to fire up the debugger. * *break class(.|\#)method [if expression]*: set breakpoint in _method_ (. and \# for class and instance method respectively) defined in _class_. The _expression_ works the same way as with file:line. +[source, shell] +---------------------------------------------------------------------------- +(rdb:5) break 10 +Breakpoint 1 file /PathTo/project/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/filters.rb, line 10 +---------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Use *info breakpoints n* or *info break n* lo list breakpoints, is _n_ is defined it shows that breakpoints, otherwise all breakpoints are listed. + +[source, shell] +---------------------------------------------------------------------------- +(rdb:5) info breakpoints +Num Enb What + 1 y at filters.rb:10 +---------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Deleting breakpoints: use the command *delete n* to remove the breakpoint number _n_ or all of them if _n_ is not specified. + +[source, shell] +---------------------------------------------------------------------------- +(rdb:5) delete 1 +(rdb:5) info breakpoints +No breakpoints. +---------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Enabling/Disabling breakpoints: + +* *enable breakpoints*: allow a list _breakpoints_ or all of them if none specified, to stop your program (this is the default state when you create a breakpoint). +* *disable breakpoints*: the _breakpoints_ will have no effect on your program. + +=== Catching Exceptions + +The command *catch exception-name* (or just *cat exception-name*) can be used to intercept an exception of type _exception-name_ when there would otherwise be is no handler for it. + +To list existent catchpoints use *catch*. + === Resuming Execution * *continue* [line-specification] (or *c*): resume program execution, at the address where your script last stopped; any breakpoints set at that address are bypassed. The optional argument line-specification allows you to specify a line number to set a one-time breakpoint which is deleted when that breakpoint is reached. @@ -354,7 +390,7 @@ You can add breakpoints dynamically with the command *break* (or just *b*), ther At any time, you may use any of this commands to edit the code you are evaluating: -* *edit [file:line]*: edit _file_ using the editor specified by the EDITOR environment variable. A specific _line_ can also be given. +* *edit [file:line]*: edit _file_ using the editor specified by the EDITOR environment variable. A specific _line_ can also be given. * *tmate n* (abbreviated *tm*): open the current file in TextMate. It uses n-th frame if _n_ is specified. === Quitting |