hubot with debugging

gistfile1.sh

#!/bin/bash

set -e

for opt in $* ; do
  case "$opt" in
    --debug) hubot_debug="coffee --nodejs --debug";;
  esac
done

if [ -n "$hubot_debug" -a "$NODE_ENV" != "development" ] ; then
  unset hubot_debug
fi

exec ${hubot_debug} node_modules/.bin/hubot "$@"

gistfile2.md

Debugging Hubot

Javascript and coffeescript can be hard, and writing hubot scripts even harder. If you are stumped with what hubot is actually doing, you can use node-inspector to poke around.

To get started:

• run bin/hubot --debug
• in a different console, run: script/inspector
• open http://localhost:8081/debug?port=5858 in node-inspector supported browser (ie Google Chrome)

The debugger starts you in node_modules/hubot/bin/hubot, but you can broese up to the hubot root directory, and then into scripts to get at the our scripts.

Unfortunately, the contents of scripts in node-inspector seems to be the compiled javascript, rather than coffeescript, but it is better than nothing.

inspector

#!/bin/sh
node-inspector --web-port=8081

bin/hubot --debug no longer works in latest version. They seem to have changed a lot of stuff.