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eyal83
eyal83

Reputation: 11

How to remote debug a rails 3.0.2

I have a bug in my application which is only happening on 'stage' but not locally. I would like to use a debugger and set a breakpoint so I can debug the application on stage.

Locally I use pry and even got the pry-remote to work locally but couldn't get it to work on the server.

I don't mind using the regular debugger or pry for the debugging.

The problem I am usually hit with: ArgumentError (non-absolute home)

Thanks.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 255

Answers (2)

Simone Carletti
Simone Carletti

Reputation: 176552

One solution to reproduce the error locally is to start your server in the same environment that is failing.

$ RAILS_ENV=staging script/server

Upvotes: 0

muttonlamb
muttonlamb

Reputation: 6501

If you're definitely not putting this out into a production environment while you're testing it, I would recommend the better_errors Gem. It's definitely not for a production site though as it would expose some serious security issues

If you include it in the :development group it will give you a console in the webpage whenever an error is occurring.

If it's not raising a fatal error, then you can throw the raise method anywhere you want to act like a breakpoint, you won't be able to continue on, but it's useful to help do pry like stuff in the webpage.

There's a good guide by Ryan Bates

http://railscasts.com/episodes/402-better-errors-railspanel

Upvotes: 1

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