How to attach a Lua debugger to the redbean Lua interpreter?

[chrisokuda]

I'm looking to attach a VSCode debugger (I use "Lua Debug" extension, but I can figure something out from CLI commands) into my redbean application, but I'm not sure where to start. I can debug my code, other than redbean functions/modules, using standard Lua, but cannot debug the redbean-specific stuff. I'm looking to be able to at the very least run a file with redbean -i filename.lua and attach a debugger, but it would be cool if I could attach a debugger to a running redbean server, too :)

Thanks for any assistance!

[pkulchenko]

I've been working on getting Lua debugging to work using ZeroBrane Studio IDE I've been developing, but it will only help with the Lua-level debugging. I plan to have a plugin completed and a blog post with instructions up before the end of the month. Will update this ticket when it's available. There is unlikely to be a way to attach the debugging to the Lua code, but with a small code change you should be able to debug Lua files and hooks.

[chrisokuda]

I've been working on getting Lua debugging to work using ZeroBrane Studio IDE I've been developing

The link isn't working for me, but I'm interested in looking at your project.

There is unlikely to be a way to attach the debugging to the Lua code, but with a small code change you should be able to debug Lua files and hooks.

Yea, I found a few resources showing how I could run a debugger inside the interpreter at the start of my code and connect to it but so far I haven't tried it because I wanted to see if anyone had done it already or had a "magic forumula" or something like that :)

I think I'll try that method for now, as a simple cli debugger is sufficient and in the meanwhile someone here might comment on a method.

Thanks for the response pkulchenko

[pkulchenko]

Thanks @chrisokuda; I fixed the link (it was missing the scheme) in both comments.

[chrisokuda]

The IDE looks really nice @pkulchenko! I will try it out a bit later on. I probably should have replied in a thread to your original comment reply, but I don't use github much sorry!

[pkulchenko]

Keep in mind that it doesn't support redbean debugging just yet, but as I wrote earlier, I plan to add a plugin to enable that.