RichardOnRails wrote:
Geez, Marnen,
I don't see why people on a list focused on the most famous Ruby app
would view it beneath themselves to address a fundamental Ruby
question.
It's not that they see it as "beneath themselves". It's simply that
this is a forum for Rails issues, and only for Rails issues. A simple
issue with the Ruby debugger is off topic here. Please ask your
question where it is on topic -- it will get seen by Ruby experts who
are familiar with the debugger but don't necessarily use Rails.
Incidentally, my question is, in fact, related to a Rails - a Rails
application.
No. It came up *in the course of* Rails development, but it is not a
Rails-related question as you've presented it.
My client for the Rails app wants to change a bunch of
the app's field names. This is a job for a machine, say
ActiveScaffold, for example. However, despite the documentation from
ActiveScaffold.com and folks in the ActiveScaffold newsgroup, I still
don't have that running.
ActiveScaffold is dead simple to use. Perhaps if you were to ask
questions about the problems you're actually having, we could help.
In other words, please explicitly ask the questions you actually want
answered.
Hence, I wrote my own tool (in Ruby, of course), which I hope to
finish by tomorrow. But it's gotten complicated, which led to try
introducing Ruby Debug rather than puts debugging statements. For
this purpose, I was guided by Ruby Cookbook, O'Reilly, 2006.
I thought the RoR community might be sympathetic to a poor soul trying
to build a Rails-app administration tool.
It might. But your proximate problem is not with Rails.
Best wishes,
Richard
Best,
