On Nov 9, 2008, at 11:57 AM, Laurent Sansonetti wrote:
This could potentially be possible, if the objc code runs in the GC environment. You could load MacRuby.framework from GDB (using NSBundle), then initialize the runtime ([MacRuby sharedRuntime]) then start an IRB session, by evaluating the right expression (- [evaluateString:]).
I think this also gets back to our previous discussion about having an "irb console" window always open (on its own thread) when any MacRuby application was run in "debugging mode" (or even compiled thusly, with a debugging target). Then you'd have that console up whether you were in gdb or not and, frankly, would probably be happier with the experience when debugging ruby code (unless you're Laurent and know the internals of MacRuby well enough to make debugging ruby and/or C extension code from gdb a rewarding experience). Ideally, one should be also able to set "ruby breakpoints" from such an irb console and see control transferred to it whenever one is hit. It's an interpreted language, how hard can it be? :-)
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