Question

Is there any way to start the/a Ruby debugger whenever the code throws an exception, without me wrapping the code like this:

begin
  #do something
rescue
  debugger
end

I’d like to have it in such a way that if the do something part raises an exception, the debugger will start. It would be nice not having to modify the code to add begin rescue blocks all over.

Answer 1

I stumbled across this page:post-mortem debugging. Doing this:

Debugger.start(:post_mortem => true)

gets me where I want to.