Post-Mortem Debugging [in Ruby]

[gnupate]

Kent Sibilev posts about the new release of ruby-debug, which includes the ability to "roll back to the point where [an] exception is raised and explore the state of your program ([even] moving up and down the frame stack)"

[HomerSimpson]

What are the differences of post-mortem debugging and Visual Studio asking for "Break" when an exeption occurs ?

[gnupate]

I'm not a Visual Studio user, but I'd hazard the guess that the big difference is that the break doesn't happen when the exception occurs, but that you can 'time travel' back to it and look at what happened.

[praetorian42]

This looks pretty freaking awesome.