ABRT for Ruby

[KOSAKI Motohiro]

(4/16/12 3:54 PM), Vít Ondruch wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've put together some basic implementation of ABRT support for Ruby. It means that whenever your application/library fails in Ruby code (note that this does not catch segfaults), it will be easy to your users to report such problem into Bugzilla.
>
> Source code: https://github.com/voxik/abrt-ruby
> Gem: gem install abrt
>
> ATM, there are several ways how to test the gem:
>
> 1) "require 'abrt'" in your code, as soon as possible, but later then rubygems if you are using Ruby 1.8.
> 2) If you are already using Ruby 1.9, you can add "RUBYOPT='-rabrt'" into your environment. This assures that every time Ruby is started, the abrt gem is activated. Unfortunately, this doesn't work with Ruby 1.8, since RubyGems are not loaded by default and "RUBYOPT='-rubygems -rabrt'" does not work for some reason :/
>
> Please note that ABRT reports errors just for Ruby libraries managed by RPM. If something appears to not work as expected, it is good to observe /var/log/messages for more details.
>
> In the future, I'd love to see this integrated into Ruby (probably in F18?). I already asked upstream about possible integration [1], but if went without response, so it seems that I will have to come with some proposal.
>
> I'd love to here your comments and of course your patches :)

Hello,

I have a question. Can we detect abrt enableness on runtime? I mean, I want to integrate it to upstream. Ruby already has
similar support code for Mac. but I also want to fallback original behavior when a user disable abrt service.