# How to retrieve current ruby stacktrace

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-retrieve-current-ruby-stacktrace/70815>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [October 3, 2006, 7:47am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-retrieve-current-ruby-stacktrace/70815 "2006-10-03T07:47:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![varac](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/c2a13f/32.png) [@varac](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/varac)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2006, 7:47am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-retrieve-current-ruby-stacktrace/70815/1 "2006-10-03T07:47:46Z")

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My ruby program is stuck somewhere on some blocking call, but I don’t  
know where. Any way to probe it for a stack trace without sending it a  
kill signal? What are some debugger tools for something like this?

Thanks  
Ray

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**Author:** ![varac](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/c2a13f/32.png) [@varac](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/varac)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2006, 8:12am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-retrieve-current-ruby-stacktrace/70815/2 "2006-10-03T08:12:41Z")

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On Oct 2, 2006, at 10:47 PM, Ray C. wrote:

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[http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2006/9/25/gdb-wrapper-for-ruby](http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2006/9/25/gdb-wrapper-for-ruby)

-Ezra

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**Author:** ![varac](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/c2a13f/32.png) [@varac](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/varac)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2006, 10:52am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-retrieve-current-ruby-stacktrace/70815/3 "2006-10-03T10:52:51Z")

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Ray C. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> My ruby program is stuck somewhere on some blocking call, but I don’t  
> know where. Any way to probe it for a stack trace without sending it  
> a kill signal? What are some debugger tools for something like this?

How about “ruby -debug”?

```
robert

```

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**Author:** ![varac](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/c2a13f/32.png) [@varac](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/varac)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2006, 11:00am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-retrieve-current-ruby-stacktrace/70815/4 "2006-10-03T11:00:51Z")

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Robert K. wrote:

> How about “ruby -debug”?

s/-debug/-d/

Regards,  
Jordan