From: jay <jay@...>
Date: 2004-07-18T23:05:54+09:00
Subject: Ruby Debugger options: v[ar] g[lobal] ...

Hello,

I am confused about a feature of the Ruby debugger. The debugger documentation lists all the 
commands you can use, such as 'w' for displaying the stack frame, or 'l' for looking 
at the source. These commands work the way I expected.

The "display variables" commands, however, aren't doing what I expect... The documentation lists 
them like so:

     v[ar] g[lobal]             show global variables
     v[ar] l[ocal]               show local variables

...but when I type 'v g', I get the error message:

     1undefined local variable or method `g' for main:Object

What I was hoping was that these commands would list the global and local variables (perhaps with 
their current values). I know that I can type the actual symbol names and get the values that way, but 
a listing of all the variables would be very handy. Am I missing something?

Thanks for any help! If there is a forum or mailing list more suited for newby questions such as this, 
please let me know!

Jay