Excerpts from William Morgan's message of Wed Aug 19 11:52:26 -0700 2009:
> > no Redwood::SentManager instance defined in method call to 
> > i_am_the_instance!
> > ./lib/sup/util.rb:512:in `method_missing'
> > /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/sup/sent.rb:10:in `initialize'
> > ./lib/sup/util.rb:524:in `new'
> > ./lib/sup/util.rb:524:in `init'
> > ./lib/sup.rb:110:in `start'
> > ./bin/sup:138
> 
> Do you get this error in next head, and in the "first bad commit" you
> reported?

Yes.

> Neither of those should have any calls to i_am_the_instance!
> anywhere in the code.

Thanks. That confirms that I'm not running the code I think I am, and
the above stack trace makes that obvious, (see
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/sup/sent.rb). So I was running some unholy mixture
of the installed Debian sup and the from-git sup and it worked no
better than one would expect.

My previously reported crashes didn't happen to fail in a way that
made /usr/lib show up in the stack trace, but both crashes are fixed
by just moving /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/sup out of the way.

So I'm glad to have things working now, but I'm still curious to know
why ruby goes digging into /usr/lib/ruby/1.8 to find sup/sent.rb when
there's a ./lib/sub/sent.rb present and I've passed a "-I ./lib"
option to ruby, (and plainly, ruby is interpreting other files from
./lib).

And I'd be glad if someone could recommend a ruby-esque way to debug a
situation like this. I mean, I could obviously have just run ruby
under strace and looked for the paths of various *.rb files getting
loaded, but surely there's some more ruby-specific way to list files
that are being used?

-Carl

PS. I'm intrigued by the following mention:

        You’ve got the same sort of command-line debugger available.
        
[http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/documentation/ruby-from-other-languages/to-ruby-from-c-and-c-/]

so that's clearly something I'm going to have to learn to use.


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