The Life of a Radar

Where did I put that puts?
04 Nov 2009

This is the question I ask after I’ve just finished a massive debugging session and I run the tests and halfway through there’s something vague like “S3” printed out. So I do a Cmd+Shift+F looking for that string and of course it doesn’t exist. What’s a guy to do?

Well, at Mocra we put this in our config/environment.rb file (although a better location would be in a required file located somewhere in lib, probably named debug.rb):

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<pre>
\# Print the location of puts/p calls so you can find them later
def puts str
  super caller.first if caller.first.index("shoulda.rb") == -1
  super str
end

def p obj puts caller.first super obj end </pre>

And when we don’t want it we comment it out. This will give us the exact location of the puts so we can track it down and remove it.

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