From: dirk.dittert@... (Dirk Dittert)
Date: 2006-02-22T17:33:33+09:00
Subject: How to develop on OS X + debugger problems

Hi,

I just started developing Ruby on OS X and didn't find any good IDEs.
What is the best way to do it?

I absolutely need a debugger. Currently, I am using Eclipse with the RDT
plugin, but all I get when stepping is:

ruby 1.8.4 debugger listens on port 54606
/Users/dittert/Documents/workspace/FileManager/Test.rb:2: [BUG] Bus
Error
ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [powerpc-darwin8.4.0]

The program is
puts "abc\n"
puts "abc\n"
puts "abc\n"  <-- breakpoint
puts "abc\n"
puts "abc\n"
puts "abc\n"
puts "abc\n"

G5:~ dittert$ ruby --version
ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [powerpc-darwin8.4.0]

Additionally, when I run the ruby version that comes with OS X (which is
version 1.8.2), I can step in the debugger. But it then doesn't show all
variables and I am also unable to write output to the console...

ruby -r debug Test.rb really isn't what I want...

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Best,

Dirk Dittert