# Strace\_me 1.0 Released

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/strace-me-1-0-released/189798>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [June 8, 2010, 1:12am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/strace-me-1-0-released/189798 "2010-06-08T01:12:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![miracleofmagick](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/71c47a/32.png) [@miracleofmagick](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/miracleofmagick)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2010, 1:12am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/strace-me-1-0-released/189798/1 "2010-06-08T01:12:42Z")

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[http://seattlerb.rubyforge.org/strace\_me](http://seattlerb.rubyforge.org/strace_me)

A wrapper around strace(1) that allows you to perform targetted tracing  
of a  
block. strace\_me allows you to track down problems without wading  
through  
gobs of ruby startup or other irrelevant noise.

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**Author:** ![miracleofmagick](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/71c47a/32.png) [@miracleofmagick](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/miracleofmagick)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 8:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/strace-me-1-0-released/189798/2 "2010-06-09T20:36:03Z")

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

> [http://seattlerb.rubyforge.org/strace\_me](http://seattlerb.rubyforge.org/strace_me)
> 
> A wrapper around strace(1) that allows you to perform targetted tracing of a  
> block. strace\_me allows you to track down problems without wading through  
> gobs of ruby startup or other irrelevant noise.

Other than debugging, this could be a great tool for people to learn  
Unix systems programming with.

My learning process has always been somewhat odd, but it is usually some  
variant of:

1. strace programs I find interesting
2. read manpages for syscalls I don’t recognize in strace output
3. read source code for whatever I straced

Over time I do 2) less and less since the list of syscalls is  
fairly small.

Maybe this technique for learning will work for someone else, too.