SciRuby/sciruby — Issue #6: Improvements needed for SciRuby::Plotter continuous evaluation
Author: mohawkjohn
Created: 2011-11-01 19:05:20+00:00
State: open

Continuous evaluation works fairly well if you're only dealing with one source file (call it A), but it breaks if your source file requires another (let's call that B). Specifically, changes to B don't trigger a plot update. You can force one with changes to A, but changes to B won't be included since B has already been required. In such a case you have to totally restart the plotter, which is not how it should be.

Additionally, the backtrace display for the plotter is totally borked. It was badly written to begin with. It cuts off certain error messages. Some are too long to display in an alert box. Perhaps a console of some sort is needed.