Tracer

Outputs a source level execution trace of a Ruby program.

It does this by registering an event handler with Kernel#set_trace_func for processing incoming events. It also provides methods for filtering unwanted trace output (see ::add_filter, ::on, and ::off).

Example

Consider the following Ruby script

class A
  def square(a)
    return a*a
  end
end

a = A.new
a.square(5)

Running the above script using ruby -r tracer example.rb will output the following trace to STDOUT (Note you can also ex