From: Huw Collingbourne <huw@...>
Date: 2006-10-14T02:45:15+09:00
Subject: Re: communicating with ruby debugger


"Shea Martin" <shea@null.net> wrote in message 
news:8bPXg.4879$cz.69051@ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca...
> Did you write your own debugger(s) for the editor or do you know of a way 
> to tie into debug.rb?

In the free edition we have a debugger comprising some Ruby and some C#. 
Ruby does the evaluation; C# does the Visual Studio stuff (setting and 
displaying breakpoints; drag-and-drop watch variables; an integrated 
evaluation console; trace-into/over; autos, locals, run-to, call stack 
etc.). It's a pretty decent debugger, I think (then again, I'm biased!), 
which lets you debug both Ruby and Rails applications. But, even though 
people have told us they find it fast enough, personally, I am still 
dissatisfied with the speed (put simply, it's not as fast as Microsoft's C# 
or C++ debugger) which is why we decided to create a completeley new 
debugger for the commercial release of Ruby In Steel.

The debugger in the commercial edition is dramatically faster and much more 
powerful (we are already using it internally but we still have some work to 
do before it goes out to our beta testers). I'm afraid that we don't plan to 
reveal too much regarding the implementation details of the commercial 
debugger ;-)

best wishes
Huw Collingbourne

http://www.sapphiresteel.com
Ruby Programming In Visual Studio 2005