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The Call Stack gives you a great way to ‘trace backwards' through the execution of your Ruby programs. Whereas a breakpoint shows you where you are at a given moment in the life of your program, the call stack shows you where you have been. Each time you step into a new method with the debugger, a new entry is added to the call stack . So, if you enter method x, the call stack pane shows x along with (optionally) some other information such as the name of the source file and (...)
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