CGI::Inspect info goes here.

This, along with Continuity::Monitor::CGI, allows you to inspect a running web application.

Code

The easiest way is to get it from CPAN. But if you want something a little more raw:

Real Darcs Repo

darcs get http://thelackthereof.org/projects/perl/CGI-Inspect

Github mirror

git clone git://github.com/awwaiid/cgi-inspect.git

YAPC::NA 2009 Presentation

You can get the slides at http://thelackthereof.org/projects/perl/yapcna-2009/cgi-inspect/

Abstract:

One of the tried and true ways of debugging is to sprinkle 'print "Here! $val\n"' around and see what happens or if the program even reaches that point. Simple and effective! Carp::REPL lets you take this a step further by starting an interactive Read-Eval-Print Loop (REPL) at an arbitrary point in your program.

I've taken this technique and mixed in a splash of Continuity to build an interactive web-based REPL and inspector for your application. The REPL lets you execute arbitrary code, the inspector gives you a GUI for traversing your callstack and manipulating your variables. It works on regular applications and CGI scripts too. You just add a single "inspect()" where you like and you'll be whackin' those bugs DOWN!

In this talk I'll show you how to use the tool and how it's built... and how you can add to it with plugins.

PPW 2008 Presentation

I presented the earlier incarnation of this module, Continuity::Monitor::CGI, at PPW 2008 to about 30 people. If you missed it you can get the PPW 2008 Continuity-Monitor Slides. Here is the abstract:

One of the tried and true ways of debugging is to sprinkle 'print "Here! $val\n"' around and see what happens or if the program even reaches that point. Simple and effective! Carp::REPL lets you take this a step further by starting an interactive read-eval-print loop (REPL) at an arbitrary point in your program.

I've taken this technique and mixed in a splash of Continuity to build an interactive web-based REPL and inspector for your application. It works on CGI scripts too (baring some fixable browser timeouts :) ). If you're nice to it, it might even let you edit your source file, reload it, and continue execution. You just add a single "inspect()" where you like and you'll be whackin' those bugs DOWN!

In this talk I'll show you how to use the tool and how it's built... and how you can add to it. And by then it'll be on CPAN :)