Atom editor plugin

[jch]

Have you heard if any efforts towards building an Atom editor plugin for byebug? #15 makes it sound possible. I'd be interested in hacking something together as a fun project, but wanted to get your thoughts on it first.

🍻 for this awesome gem.

[deivid-rodriguez]

Hi @jch, haven't heard of nobody working on that plugin, so go ahead. @shuky19's sublime-debugger seems like a similar plugin so he might be able to help you. In any case, let me know how I can help if you need it.

[JonCrawford]

👍 for this. I would use it every single day. I use https://atom.io/packages/ruby-test to run tests inside Atom, and without this, my Rspec/Spring processes get hung when I accidentally leave in a byebug statement when executing from inside the editor. Have to ps/kill them from the command line a couple times a day after I do that. Super annoying. Consider this a major bump!

[Jeehut]

I'd love to see this, too and would help if I can. I'm not fit in node.js though ... but here's a node debugger for atom as a starting point on how this might look like at the end:
https://github.com/kiddkai/atom-node-debugger

[anhari]

👍

[deivid-rodriguez]

Please use reactions instead of dummy comments!

[izaera]

Hi there:

I'm working on an Atom plugin for byebug. It's not yet finished and almost still unusable for real debugging, but run, stop, next and step seem to be working already.

If anyone wants to contribute it is here -> https://github.com/izaera/ruby-debugger-byebug https://github.com/izaera/atom-byebug

If not, you will have to wait until I complete it :-P

Cheers,
Ivan

[deivid-rodriguez]

Hi Ivan! Thanks, this is great! Do you think we should maybe close this issue and add the plugin to the README? Also, the name of the plugin feels a bit strange to me. Shouldn't it mention "Atom" somewhere?

[shuky19]

Hi all,

I'd love to help, please update me where things are standing right now

[izaera]

Hi @deivid-rodriguez:

As I said the plugin is still not functional, nor have I deployed it to atom package repository, so I'm not sure if this bug should already be closed or not (maybe you can add it to the README marked as 'in-progress' or 'experimental' and I'll tell you when it is production ready).

Regarding, the name, I agree that the repo name is not the best I could have chosen :-(, but changing it now it's a bit cumbersome. I will try it, nevertheless.

@shuky19 Let me write the current status when I have some time and put it in the repo's README so that I don't have to repeat it every time :-).

[izaera]

@deivid-rodriguez done -> https://github.com/izaera/atom-byebug

[deivid-rodriguez]

As I said the plugin is still not functional, nor have I deployed it to atom package repository, so I'm not sure if this bug should already be closed or not (maybe you can add it to the README marked as 'in-progress' or 'experimental' and I'll tell you when it is production ready).

I think adding it to the README with a "experimental" status is a good idea.

@deivid-rodriguez done -> https://github.com/izaera/atom-byebug

Cool!

[izaera]

@shuky19 I have updated the readme of the plugin project with a little explanation on how to help. Please have a look and tell me if it can be enhanced. Thx.

https://github.com/izaera/atom-byebug/blob/master/README.md#how-to-contribute

[izaera]

@deivid-rodriguez I think that, as you proposed, you can close this bug and we can create/follow discussions in the plugin's repo issues. What do you think?

[deivid-rodriguez]

@izaera Thanks for the great work. Feel free to open a PR to add the plugin to the README. Otherwise, I'll do it and close this when I get time! 😉

[zedtux]

@izaera can you please give a status update on your Atom package?

[izaera]

@zedtux As I said before, the project is here: https://github.com/izaera/atom-byebug

I have not done much development since some time ago because:

1. It looked (to me) like no one else was very interested in the plugin
2. I haven't had too much time either :-(
3. I have get used to byebug's command line which can be accessed through Atom's terminal so I don't need it as much as before.

That said, I will probably restart development again because it seems that I have more free time now. You are welcome to join if you like ;-).

[zedtux]

Thank you @izaera for your update :)

Unfortunately I'm not a good Javascript developer, and the best I did until now is my ror-refactor, plus I have already 2 big projects in parallel taking all my time 😓

I'm looking for your package. Why not adding your project to funding platform like bountysource.com? :)

[izaera]

Let me check the status of the project because right now it doesn't even work in Atom (due to the latest changes of the editor). I will recover it and continue development (probably at a slow pace, though).

Please follow the advance in the plugin's project. As soon as it works for Atom I will package it (as something experimental, not fully working) so that it can be at least installed and people can contribute (with development or feedback: both are welcome :-) ).

[zedtux]

Great @izaera I'm following up on the package's repo.

[izaera]

Just a quick comment to say that I have published the first version of the Atom plugin. Right now it is work in progress but at least you can launch, step and stop debugged process. And also send direct commands to byebug.

Check it out here: https://atom.io/packages/atom-byebug