For the past week or so I have been running Zend Z-Ray in Laravel Homestead. Every time using it, new features come to light that are fantastic for debugging your apps in development! What follows is a quick preview of Z-Ray, along with all the steps necessary to install it on Laravel Homestead.
Z-Ray installs on the server, and will automatically load on all your projects on that particular server (in our case Homestead) automatically. Even better, it supports many major frameworks right out of the box, including: WordPress, ZendFramework (1 & 2), Magento, Drupal, with Symfony support on the way. (You can even extend it for your own Framework, if you like!)
This is very exciting for developers who have all their client sites in Homestead, regardless of the framework. The bottom line is that Z-Ray saves time and provides debugging tools without requiring you to install them in each project.
The admin panel can be easily accessed from the Z-Ray bar itself via the right hamburger menu and selecting “Settings”, or you can browse any of your homestead sites with the admin port 10081, for example http://example.dev:10081/.
Now exit out of Homestead and remove the 10081 port from your Homestead.yml file.
After that, halt and restarting Homestead should be the finishing touch.
homestead halt && homestead up
I want to thank Zeev Suraski from Zend for inviting me to test-drive their tech preview of the stand-alone version of Z-Ray.
We would love to hear about your experiences with Z-Ray! Do you like it? Does it improve your development workflow? Let us know.
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