From: aeroastro007@... Date: 2017-12-24T15:09:50+00:00 Subject: [ruby-core:84428] [CommonRuby Feature#8661] Add option to print backstrace in reverse order(stack frames first & error last) Issue #8661 has been updated by aeroastro (Takumasa Ochi). Although I am not a Ruby committer, IMHO, I do not think the current implementation is the best way to fully address the reporter's concern. As written in this issue's description section, reversing the backtrace is a solution which only works in the environments where you read the log from bottom to top like terminals. Nowadays, it is becoming more and more common to read the log from top to bottom in other environments like CI report (e.g. Jenkins, Travis, and so on), web-based error dashboard (e.g. Stack Driver), interactive applications (e.g. Jupyter). Current Ruby 2.5's behavior is to reverse backtrace when STDERR is unchanged and a tty. Therefore we can still read the backtrace from top to bottom in those situations. However, this conditional reversing lacks consistency and is confusing. For example, just a redirection can change the behavior of output. At the same time, I think we need to clarify what the problem actually is. If a lot of people using Rails are suffering from huge backtraces, which can be assumed from the word "every project" and "tailing the production logs", ActiveSupport::BacktraceCleaner can solve the problem in a more sophisticated way. It convert the huge backtrace to a very compact one by filtering out irrelevant lines which belong to Rails framework. This solution works well regardless of the way how we read the log because the backtrace is short and simple. If people developing Rails itself are suffering from huge backtraces, although conditional reversing could work to some extent, IMHO, we need to consider a solution with fewer and minor side effects. ---------------------------------------- Feature #8661: Add option to print backstrace in reverse order(stack frames first & error last) https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/8661#change-68624 * Author: gary4gar (Gaurish Sharma) * Status: Closed * Priority: Normal * Assignee: matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto) * Target version: ---------------------------------------- Currently the way ruby prints the backtrace is that the error comes first & then the stack frames. like this ``` Main Error Message stack frame 1 stack frame 2 stack frame 3 ..... ``` this is perfectly fine provided 1. Backstraces are short, so fits in terminal.hence, no need to scroll. 2. you read it from top to bottom. But, I am a rails developer where 1. Backstraces are always HUGE, therefore seldom don't fit in terminal. Means LOTS of scrolling to do everytime we get an error. 2. in terminal we tend to read backstraces from bottom to top, especially when tailing(tail -f) the production logs. 3. people, who practice Test-driven development literally spend most of their time scrolling to read backstraces to the point most end up buying a larger display. Proposed Solution: Please add a way so we can configure backstraces to be printed in reverse order. so if you are reading from bottom, say from terminal, you can get the main error message without need to scroll. like this ``` stack frame 3 stack frame 2 stack frame 1 Main Error Message ..... ``` this would save lot of time because when the error message is print at the bottom, no need to scroll for reading it. Not sure if this can be done today. I tried Overriding Exception#backtrace but it caused stack level too deep & illegal hardware instruction Error. Attached are currently what backstrace currently looks like & how there be an option to make it look for comparison. ---Files-------------------------------- current.log (5.13 KB) proposed.log (4.9 KB) -- https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/ Unsubscribe: