From: Curt Hibbs <curt@...>
Date: 2005-02-14T07:47:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby on Windows: debugger questions and comments

JC wrote:
>
> 1. It seems that the debugger built into FreeRIDE doesn't work under
> Windows? If this is true, why on earth doesn't the debugger pop a
> dialog box saying this when you try to use it??? Leaving around a
> broken debugger without any warning to users in a development
> environment makes Ruby look so bad compared to the standard Python and
> Perl distributions. A few minutes effort would at least stop Ruby from
> looking unreliable.

The latest version of FreeRide, and the version of FreeRIDE that comes with
the One-Click Ruby Installer for Windows, both have working debuggers.

Curt