From: Just Another Victim of the Ambient Morality Date: 2006-07-21T13:15:09+09:00 Subject: Re: Can't debug with Ruby in Steel... "Huw Collingbourne" wrote in message news:44bfeb9d$0$10950$fa0fcedb@news.zen.co.uk... >> First, how does one actually debug with Ruby in Steel? > > Breakpoints are available for Ruby programs (not for Rails). You simply > double-click in the margin to set breakpoints. You can set watch variables > by drag and drop. You must run with the Visual Studio Debugger (F5) for > breakpoints to be met. Breakpoints do not operate when you run without > debugging (Ctrl+F5). This is true of all Visual Studio languages. You can > also step into and step over when using F5 followed by F10 or F11. Full > debugging and tracing with breakpoints, watches, call stack, locals and > autos will then be available. I tried that but those functions are disabled. All I can do is press Ctrl-2 to run the script. Seriously, they're disabled and I can't invoke them... I tried creating a project, in case that had something to do with anything, but it gives me the error "Value cannot be null. Parameter name: type" What does that mean? >> breakpoints and run the script but the breakpoints are never set even >> though the code is run. What's up with that? >> Secondly, how does one uninstall it? There's no obvious uninstall >> and, > > You uninstall it using the Control Panel's Program Add/Remove option and > select Steel. The rest is automatic. Okay, at least I can remove the thing should it fail to ever work. Thank you...