Official Revel Debugging Guide

[brendensoares]

In #95 we discussed the options for using gdb to debug a Revel app.

I'd like to get together an official guide on how to set breakpoints and walkthrough a Revel app at runtime with gdb and hopefully with some IDE integration.

[verdverm]

what about this: http://goconvey.co/
and this:
http://blog.lazywei.com/2013/11/25/goconvey-and-gocheck/

not gdb, but they both look pretty good

gdb related:
http://golang.org/doc/gdb
http://thornydev.blogspot.com/2014/01/debugging-go-golang-programs-with-gdb.html

[brendensoares]

How is GoConvey related to runtime debugging? It definitely looks great for unit testing, but I don't see the relation.

Side point: our testing suite is already pretty nice with browser output, but maybe we could enhance it further with some inspiration from GoConvey.

[mihaihuluta]

Is there an official debugging guide for Revel? Personally I just want to follow clear steps in order to be able to debug a Revel application (currently it matters less if its command line based or IDE based). I really do not want to spend time trying to figure out how to do it. Specially that I am new to both Golang and Revel.

[brendensoares]

@mihaihuluta there is still no official guide to give you easy steps. Sorry.

[cellis]

I'm also interested in this. Having spent about 5 hours trying to get the sublimetext 3 debugger (gogdb) working for simple go programs, i'm thinking it's not going to be easy with Revel.

I think a gentler tutorial to debugging with gdb is this: http://lincolnloop.com/blog/introduction-go-debugging-gdb/

[mihaihuluta]

In my case this answer helped a lot: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23952886/revel-debugging-how-to

[brendensoares]

Thanks for the helpful resources @cellis and @mihaihuluta :]

[brendensoares]

#294

[pedromorgan]

Do we need to put this in the FAQ ?

[brendensoares]

@pedromorgan we need a guide for it somewhere, eventually. Where were you thinking? The website or the wiki?

[pedromorgan]

I'd stick it in the manual as a quick quide, with some footer links to some externals..

[brendensoares]

@pedromorgan that sounds like a good idea.

[pedromorgan]

started a page here..
http://revel-docs.daffodil.uk.com/manual/debug.html

Just need time to check and finish it.. hopefully by the weekend

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