lua-devtools
An irb-workalike for Lua, and a command-line debugger with readline support.
h1. Lua Devtools
This package provides a few tools to make your life as a Lua developer better. It's aimed primarily for use in projects where Lua it the primary language rather than embedded.
It contains:
- ilua - "A better interactive Lua command line":http://lua-users.org/wiki/InteractiveLua that prints return values as you go along (by Steve Donovan)
- debugger - A "command-line debugger":http://luaforge.net/projects/clidebugger/ with readline support (by Dave Nichols)
I am not the author of these tools, I only added readline support to the debugger and packaged them.
Since the original authors did not release their work under any license, this package is released under the "WTFPL":http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/.
h2. Usage
To install, clone this repository and do "luarocks make devtools-*.rockspec". I may eventually put the rockspec on Luaforge but I'm just banging this out in 10 minutes right now and it's not exactly polished yet.
h3. ilua
Just run @ilua@ from the command line.
h3. debugger
Inclue devtools.debugger in your Lua program and execute it on the command line. The @pause@ function will give control to the debugger, where you can then step through code, watch variables, etc.