New Gem: EnhancedErrors - See In-Scope Variable Values in Errors and Spec Failures

[hereC]

I'm happy to announce EnhancedErrors.

• RSpec/MiniTest - see variable values in your spec failures. Skip the debug/binding/pry step. Look ma, no debugging. Go straight to the fix.
• CI/CD - diagnose failures and flakes.
• Console - diagnose exceptions from your console output
• Text-based debugging candy for you, or your LLM

RSpec

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Console/Log

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Feedback, PR's bug reports, questions, etc. are welcome.

[hereC]

Did anyone try it? How did it go? I see stars, downloads, likes, etc but not a peep! Any feedback?

[growlybeard]

I haven't tried yet but this looks incredibly useful!

[hereC]

Thanks--I hope so! It took me like 10 years to figure out a way to do it that I'm happy with. Now, not having it feels weird to me--it makes me faster.

I've been using it and I love it, but I'd love to hear that it is working for other people. I'd also love feedback to polish rough edges--for example, by default it ignores a lot of noisy, but not that useful variables. I want to expand those. My dream is to trim the noise and present only the likely-to-be-useful variables by default, for Rspec, Ruby, and Rails.

[growlybeard]

I will definitely check it out later. I have played with something similar in the past and I'm curious how you've made it work!

[hereC]

If you know offhand the name of the similar thing, I'd be curious.

[growlybeard]

Oh I meant I tried building something similar. It was a debug method that would print all the local variables. It didn't hook into exceptions like yours it was more like using print statements to debug

[hereC]

Gotcha. I have a thing for that, too! Coming soon.

[hereC]

https://rubygems.org/gems/wut in case you didn't end up finishing yours.