[Catalyst] Debugging Catalyst with Eclipse

[Nathan Waddell]

It would be really nice if there were some detailed articles on
dev.catalyst.perl.org regarding different options for debugging and
how to implement them.

On Jan 18, 2008 10:38 AM, Peter Edwards <peter at dragonstaff.com> wrote:
>
> -----Original Message-----
> >From: Nathan Waddell [mailto:arafeandur at gmail.com]
> >Sent: 18 January 2008 15:29
> >To: The elegant MVC web framework
> >Subject: Re: [Catalyst] Debugging Catalyst with Eclipse
> >
> >Wow, thanks for all the responses.
> >
> >Troy, I'll subscribe to the EPIC list and see if I can get a
> >conversation started on their end.
> >
> >Matt, I guess you're a member of the EPIC list?
> >
> >Dmitriy, how did you set up Eclipse+EPIC to debug Catalyst apps?
> >
> >Peter, the Devel::ebug as remote debugger sounds promising. However,
> >I'm brand new to Catalyst, so I'll have to dig into the docs on that
> >and see if I can figure it out. Thanks for the suggestion!
>
> Hi Nathan. Hooking Eclipse + EPIC to Devel::ebug is a separate issue from
> using Catalyst. I'd suggest aiming first to be able to remotely debug a
> "hello world!" program.
>
> Catalyst has a lot of debugging stuff built in, script/myapp_test.pl front
> end, Test::WWW::Mechanize wrapper, mock objects, fake requests and so on,
> which is where Matt's offer to help might come in handy if you want to add
> some Catalyst-specific goodies to the Eclipse front end that make use of its
> internals.
>
> Finally, to debug mod_perl problems (the few that you can't fix with
> log4perl prints, Mech tests and so on), it would be handy to have a front
> end option to invoke a debug Apache. You can do this with something like
> "httpd -f myhttpdebug.conf -X -DPERLDB" and use Apache::DB ins the .conf
> file. More pointers here
> http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2006/02/09/debug_mod_perl.html?page=2
>
>
>
> Regards, Peter
> http://perl.dragonstaff.co.uk
>
>
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