From: Curt Hibbs <curt@...>
Date: 2004-11-05T02:41:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Debugger breakpoints work?



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bradley, Todd [mailto:todd.bradley@Polycom.com]
> Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 11:05 AM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: Re: Debugger breakpoints work?
> 
> 
> > > Actually, the norm i've experienced is that, if it can't set the 
> > > breakpoint where you wanted it, it either tells you it 
> > couldn't set it
> > > or tells you that it set it on another line, instead.   
> > 
> > Exactly.  In my case, I tried to set a break point on a blank 
> > line.  For example, let's say my code was like
> > this:
> > 
> > 1: # This is my Ruby code
> > 2: foo = 2
> > 3:
> > 4: bar = 3
> > 
> > I did "b 3" and expected a message back from the debugger 
> > like "Breakpoint set on line 4."  And then when I did "c"
> > for continue, I expected execution to stop at line 4.
> > But it just blazed on past lines 3 and 4.
> 
> OK, so since nobody has spoken up otherwise, let's call
> this a bug in the debugger.  Since I'm new to Ruby, what's
> the protocol for officially reporting bugs?  Do the language
> maintainers use a Bugzilla somewhere?

You can post a bug report on the Ruby project on RubyForge:

  http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?group_id=426

Curt