Line breakpoints aren't shared between processes

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
ruby
Domain
devtools

Research direction

Reproduce the behavior with the Rails/Puma multi-process setup described in the issue, using five workers and line breakpoints. Then inspect the debugger's process handling mechanism; done means a line breakpoint added to one process stops requests handled by every process, with behavior checked in VSCode attach mode.

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Description

enhancement

Your environment

  • ruby -v: 3.1.0
  • rdbg -v: 1.6.0

Describe the bug

When the debuggee application has multiple processes, line breakpoints added to 1 of them won't be shared to other processes.
This will cause inconsistent breakpoint stop because only that process will stop and others won't.

To Reproduce

This issue should happen to any application that:

  • Has multiple processes
  • Uses line breakpoints

But reproducing it with VSCode is easier:

  1. Create a new rails application

  2. In config/puma.rb, set

    threads 1, 1 # limit the threads number to 1 will increase the reproduction chance
    
    # other configs
    
    workers 5 # increase this number will also help reproduction
    
  3. Start the server with bundle exec rdbg -c -- bundle exec rails s

  4. Set a breakpoint

  5. Attach the debugger

  6. Sending requests to the Rails app

  7. The breakpoint should stop at some requests but not all of them

Expected behavior

The breakpoints should stop at every request

Additional context

@ko1 mentioned that:

  • Resolving this will require rewriting a big part of the process handling mechanism
  • Possible workarounds: 1) Use only 1 process or 2) For VSCode users, use launch mode instead
  • There are no timeline for this issue yet (probably not before Ruby 3.2 is out)
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