How do I get ruby to print a full backtrace instead of a truncated one?

Question

When I get exceptions, it is often from deep within the call stack. When this happens, more often than not, the actual offending line of code is hidden from me:

Answer 1

I was getting these errors when trying to load my test environment (via rake test or autotest) and the IRB suggestions didn't help. I ended up wrapping my entire test/test_helper.rb in a begin/rescue block and that fixed things up.

begin
  class ActiveSupport::TestCase
    #awesome stuff
  end
rescue => e
  puts e.backtrace
end