[Catalyst] Debugging Catalyst with Eclipse

[Matt S Trout]

On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 11:11:13AM -0500, Troy Davis 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.

I'd be perfectly happy to act as "the guy who understands Catalyst" in order
to help make this happen.

Personally, I consider screen+vi+Devel::REPL to be my IDE but it doesn't mean
I don't want to see other people's preferences supported too :)

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