breakpointer doesn't show local variables

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Hi there

On one of my machines (ubuntu 6.10) I'm experiencing some weird problems.

Breakpointer doesn't recognize the local variables, if in a breakpointer session I type

local_variables

the reply is always

["id", "block", "_"]

while in the context where breakpoint is invoked there are many other local variables. All the instance variables are correctly recognized and I can inspect and work with them as usual. Even the source_lines method works fine

At this point I'm quite sure something is off in this machine setup.

Does anyone have a clue?

Thanks

Paolo

2

Hi,

I've previously had this problem too.

Rebboting my laptop solved it for me. Very strange though.

Martin

3

I'm running into the same thing also on Ubuntu 6.10. Started noticing it about the same time you did. Are we the same person? :wink:

Hopefully my confirmation of the problem will draw some attention to our predicament. Certainly makes debugging a little difficult, doesn't it!

Dave

4

No ideas to this yet, eh? It's truly the buggiest thing EVAR! Debugging is near impossible without being able to look at local variables.

5

No, breakpointer isn't buggy at all. Displaying local variables just doesn't work with Ruby 1.8.5, which is a well-known limitation that has been mentioned on this list quite a few times.

For a real debugger, consider ruby-debug

http://www.datanoise.com/ruby-debug

Michael

6

But we're not using v1.8.5 - we're on 1.8.4.

Paolo, if you're still getting this try using this instead of the plain call to breakpoint: Breakpoint.breakpoint(nil,binding)

That works for me. YMMV, Dave

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Thanks Dave.