Ruby Debugging - IsDebuggerAttached?

[Neil_Burkholder]

Is there a way from a ruby script to tell if SketchUp is running in debug mode? If I would be able to somehow get the command line arguments I could tell that way.

I’m currently launching SketchUp for debugging like this:

"C:\Program Files\SketchUp\SketchUp 2017\SketchUp17.exe" -rdebug "ide port=7000"

Now I paste in my code to add in a toolbar button that loads the rb files I’m working on. I would like for my extension to be able to determine if SU is running in debug mode at startup. If it is, show the ‘debug’ button.

Any ideas?

[tt_su]

You could also pass in another argument that load a debug file setting a debug variable or constant. That’s what I do:

-RubyStartup "/path/to/ruby.rb"

SketchUp Command Arguments

Or you can use -RubyStartupArg, which will be accessible from ARGV:

# => ARGV
["DevelopmentBuild:Debug (2.2)"]

I think we tried to forward all SU arguments to the Ruby interpreter, but ran into issues - would not pick up. Maybe because we are embedding the interpreter… so we added the -RubyStartupArg argument.

[Neil_Burkholder]

Thanks I’ll try that.