Rails/Ruby: Any way to shorten the stack traces?

Question

I would like to limit the size of the stack traces I am seeing in Rails. I'm not really interested in debugging the Rails stack as much as my own application. Is there any built-in way to have Rails do this dynamically?

Answer 1

You could wrap the code with your own exception catcher and just output how much you want.

Using the array from the backtrace-Method

Only alternative I could think of. Recompiling Ruby and changing the values which control the stack depth in eval.c (TRACE_HEAD and TRACE_TAIL)

Answer 2

Yes. Take a look at the ActiveSupport::BacktraceCleaner class. Nice explanation here.