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elixir
Mouli
Mouli

Reputation: 1651

XDebug like tool for Elixir

I come from PHP background to Elixir and am a great fan of XDebug with all its options to view stack trace with values passed to functions/methods during runtime.

Is there a similar tool in Elixir that I can use to watch the values of variables? I know IEx.pry is an option, but I'd like to know if a debugger similar to XDebug is available - which is enabled through a configuration switch, as I'd like to do this for code that's not in my control. (e.g. errors that I faced during mix local.hex)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 87

Answers (1)

Onorio Catenacci
Onorio Catenacci

Reputation: 15343

I'm not sure exactly what XDebug does but there are some options for debugging Elixir/Erlang code:

Observer: http://erlang.org/doc/man/observer.html (from within iex, type :observer.start to start it.

Debugger: http://erlang.org/doc/apps/debugger/debugger_chapter.html (from within iex, type :debugger.start to start it.

Try those two tools and see if they answer your need.

Upvotes: 1

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