> Hi!
> Is there any way you can connect to a running ruby process (for instance a
> mongrel) and 'talk' to it like we can do in lisp using slime ?
> For instance in you may connect to a running lisp image (like a hunchentoot
> web server) and inspect variables as they get created and destroyed. I find
> such a 'back-door'(if we may call it) very powerful. I remember there was
> something called a breakpoint or debug built into rails. However that is not
> what I am actually looking at.
> 
> Piyush

Look at LiveConsole:
http://rubyforge.org/projects/live-console/
(Maybe it isn't directly what you need, but it might help)

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