From: Greg Hurrell <greg.hurrell@...>
Date: 2007-02-09T21:00:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Using RSpec in the Ruby debugger

On 8 feb, 23:59, "Greg Hurrell" <greg.hurr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is it possible to run RSpec specs from inside the Ruby debugger?

Ok, for the record, before I got to the bottom of this problem I
thought I'd try using ruby-debug instead and see if the same problems
exist. Curiously, everything works perfectly under ruby-debug. It
works great and I was able to zero-in on the cause of my failing spec,
single-stepping through the problematic section and seeing what was
really going on under the covers. I am sure that without the debugger
I could have wasted days trying to figure out the cause, but under the
debugger it was a matter of about half an hour's analysis.

> A Google search for "rspec
> debugger" yields only one hit that doesn't seem relevant. Has anyone
> successfully run their RSpec specs under the debugger?

To clarify, the "one hit" I got was not from searching Google in
general, but searching just comp.lang.ruby... A wider search of the
web is what turned up references that led me to ruby-debug.

http://rubyforge.org/projects/ruby-debug/