How to stop with debugger on NoMethodError in NetBeans when running Ruby?

Question

• Netbeans 6.9
• JRuby 1.5.0
  • rails 2.3.4

Error example:

NoMethodError in Report#week

Showing app/views/report/_list_record.html.erb where line #26 raised:

You have a nil object when you didn't expect it!
The error occurred while evaluating nil.sorting

....

I can set up breakpoints, the debugger works fine. But when I have a NoSuchMethod error my browser receives a nice HTML page (see above) which informs me about the problem.

It is not enough for me. I want the NetBeans IDE / Debugger to stop where the error occurred. I want an interactive call-stack with variables on every level as if I would place a breakpoint at the right time at the right place.

(Every other development environment knows that and does that by default. I wonder why this one does not...)

Answer 1

have a look here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2327096/is-there-any-way-to-start-the-ruby-debugger-on-exception