From: "Conrad.Irwin (Conrad Irwin)" <conrad.irwin@...>
Date: 2012-12-09T09:43:12+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:50701] [ruby-trunk - Bug #7536][Open] local variables added to TOPLEVEL_BINDING in -r are broken


Issue #7536 has been reported by Conrad.Irwin (Conrad Irwin).

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Bug #7536: local variables added to TOPLEVEL_BINDING in -r are broken 
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/7536

Author: Conrad.Irwin (Conrad Irwin)
Status: Open
Priority: Normal
Assignee: 
Category: 
Target version: 
ruby -v: 2.0.0dev (2012-12-09 trunk 38278) [x86_64-linux]


If a library that you require in the -r flag of ruby evals things in TOPLEVEL_BINDING (e.g. RUBY_OPT=-rbundler/setup), then the local variables will show up in TOPLEVEL_BINDING.eval("local_variables"), but they raise a NameError if you try to use them.

A minimal test case is:

$ cat b.rb
TOPLEVEL_BINDING.eval("lib = 2")

$ cat a.rb
puts TOPLEVEL_BINDING.eval("local_variables").inspect
puts TOPLEVEL_BINDING.eval("lib").inspect

$ ruby -r./b.rb a.rb
[:lib]
<main>:in `<main>': undefined local variable or method `lib' for main:Object (NameError)
        from a.rb:2:in `eval'
        from a.rb:2:in `<main>'

This affects ruby 1.9.3 and ruby 2.0.0, I tested with:
 ruby 1.9.3p327 (2012-11-10 revision 37606) [x86_64-linux]
 ruby 2.0.0dev (2012-12-09 trunk 38278) [x86_64-linux]

Ruby 1.8.7 works fine:
$ ruby -v
ruby 1.8.7 (2012-06-29 patchlevel 370) [x86_64-linux]
$ ruby -r./b.rb a.rb
["lib"]
2

This breaks debugging tools like pry or https://github.com/charliesome/better_errors, which rightly assume that it's safe to do:

    any_binding.eval("local_variables").map{ |x| any_binding.eval("#{x}") }

There are two possible solutions; either remove the variable names from the list of "local_variables", make sure they don't raise a NameError.



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