[Catalyst] Debugging Catalyst with Eclipse

[John Napiorkowski]

--- Troy Davis <troy at digissance.com> wrote:

> On Jan 17, 2008, at 10:37 AM, Nathan Waddell wrote:
> > I'm specifically looking for some tips on how to
> set up Eclipse (with
> > EPIC, of course) to debug Catalyst applications -
> either locally or
> > remotely. I'm ok with using the Catalyst built-in
> development server
> > for this, so no worries about Apache, etc.
> 
> I use eclipse when working on my catalyst apps. I'm
> using EPIC as  
> well, which helps me catch many bugs. But I've never
> found a way to  
> debug an app interactively from within eclipse. EPIC
> claims to  
> contain a debugger, so I suppose it's theoretically
> possible, but I'm  
> not sure how it would work in a Catalyst context. I
> also have a few  
> errors that eclipse lists, but which don't cause and
> problems in the  
> app. Tweaking paths and such hasn't helped so far,
> and the authors of  
> EPIC were kind enough to reply to my messages about
> that issue, but  
> didn't work with Catalyst so didn't have a
> recommended solution.
> 
> I'd also like to see a better debugging environment
> for Catalyst apps  
> under EPIC, so post a message to the EPIC email
> list. Hopefully an  
> increase in message traffic about Catalyst on EPIC
> will result in  
> more attention being paid to getting it to work.
> 
> You can still get interactive debugging to work in a
> terminal, though:
> 
>
http://search.cpan.org/~jrockway/Catalyst-Manual-5.701003/lib/
> 
> Catalyst/Manual/Tutorial/ 
>
Debugging.pod#RUNNING_CATALYST_UNDER_THE_PERL_DEBUGGER
> 
> Cheers,
> Troy

I also use Eclipse quite a bit, mostly because I like
it's XML and HTML editor as well as some Javascript
plugins.  EPIC works okay for me, but I don't expect
very much, just variable completion, and other stuff
that works just as good in VI.  Mostly I just like
having one place for all my editing that is friendly
to me

For debugging I use either lots of logging or the
commandline debugger.

-john
 
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