From: krf <krf@...>
Date: 2006-08-16T11:25:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Debug tool?

On Wed, 16 Aug 2006 10:12:01 +0900, Max Muermann wrote:

> You can use RDT for eclipse, which has a decent graphical debugger for
> plain Ruby. Does not work for debugging Rails applications yet.
> 
> There is also the ruby-debug gem (gem install ruby-debug), which
> provides a very fast - currently only text-based - debugger.
> 
> Max

Thanks.  I am still looking. I got spoiled by Perl which is native to
Linux and doesn't require installing, and TK, which I had to have a
broadband friend download, but is now safely on a CD and runs on ANY
fairly current Linux without demanding that I download the library of the
month.

I found RDT but it is out of the question for a while.  RDT requires
EclipseSDK which requires JavaSDK which requires (for a dialup user)
somewhere around 14 months of download time.

And mr_guid which is very small but requires gtk2 and libeglade2. I
have long since learned to hate gtk since they seem to change libraries at
every change of the moon, and those changes require new sub libs which
require new sub/sub libs and - well, back in my RedHat days it was
properly known as dependency hell.  Again, no way for a dialup user.
 
Anachrid looks promising so I think I will have the friend get it for me
to try.  Hopefully tomorrow.

Ah! To live in a area closer than a thousand miles to a broadband hookup.
Must be wonderful. (Sigh).

krf