From: Tobias Luetke <tobias.luetke@...>
Date: 2005-02-14T08:11:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby on Windows: debugger questions and comments

Off topic but here goes:

I know this sounds like a long stretch but after writing thousands of
lines of production code in ruby my observation is that the lack of
debugger is actually beneficial for the project because it results in
better test coverage.
When i encounter a bug or observe an oddity I go ahead and write a
small test case for it which doesn't take much longer than using the
debugger. After I'm done I'm left with the certainty that it works
just like after using a debugger, however I also know it will never
break again because now i got a test case double checking it for me.

> 3. Can anyone recommend another Ruby debugger? I've briefly tried
> Arachno (bizarrely it doesn't seem to show the value of variables) -
> is there anything else?

Rails ships with a breakpointer. This opens an IRB session on the spot
when you put the method call "breakpoint" anywhere in your code.
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