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Re: RoR Debugbar

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Post by nickjj »

If anyone is interested in this sort of thing I started a proposal with a list of ideas and features around a Rails debug toolbar at: https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/proposal-a-fully-featured-...

NOTE: I'm not the author of this tool but they did end up replying in that thread. I didn't even know their tool existed until I happened to stumble upon it on Twitter well after my post.

It would be neat if something like this were built out and included in Rails at some point. Especially with Rails 8 focusing on tool integrations and overall developer happiness.

Re: RoR Debugbar

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Post by pmontra »

Good idea but it seems that every developer of a project is going to have to use it, because it's a gem and it must be included in a layout. It's possible to do that conditionally based on an environment variable, but we're still adding some code to the Rails app. A better way would be to turn it into an extension to developer tools, like the ones for React and Vue. I've got them into my Firefox.

Re: RoR Debugbar

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Post by MarceColl »

pmontra wrote: post #5

Good idea but it seems that every developer of a project is going to have to use it, because it's a gem and it must be included in a layout. It's possible to do that conditionally based on an environment variable, but we're still adding some code to the Rails app. A better way would be to turn it into an extension to developer tools, like the ones for React and Vue. I've got them into my Firefox.

How would you be able to implement this functionality only from the frontend without ever adding backend code? You'll always need to expose this info from the backend somehow. Of course with react and vue the data is available since it's already in the frontend.

Re: RoR Debugbar

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Post by julienbourdeau »

MarceColl wrote: post #6
pmontra wrote: post #5

Good idea but it seems that every developer of a project is going to have to use it, because it's a gem and it must be included in a layout. It's possible to do that conditionally based on an environment variable, but we're still adding some code to the Rails app. A better way would be to turn it into an extension to developer tools, like the ones for React and Vue. I've got them into my Firefox.

How would you be able to implement this functionality only from the frontend without ever adding backend code? You'll always need to expose this info from the backend somehow. Of course with react and vue the data is available since it's already in the frontend.

Yeah you always need a backend part as part of your dev dependencies but currently you also need to add a little snippet in your production view code.

It could be a browser extension like Rails panel + meta_request but I think it’s also good that anybody working on the codebase always get the debugbar, regardless of their browser or setup.

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