From: Leslie Viljoen <leslieviljoen@...>
Date: 2007-05-26T05:26:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby - Debugging

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On 5/25/07, Leslie Viljoen <leslieviljoen@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 5/25/07, Jorge Domenico Bucaran Romano <jbucaran@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > (rdb:1) b c:\users\jbucaran\desktop\demo2.rb
> > C:/Program Files/Ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/ubygems.rb:10:compile erro=
r
> > C:/Program Files/Ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/ubygems.rb:10: syntax
> > error, unexpe
> > cted $undefined, expecting tSTRING_CONTENT or tSTRING_DBEG or
> > tSTRING_DVAR or tS
> > TRING_END
> > c:\users\jbucaran\desktop\demo2
> >    ^
> > (rdb:1) Set breakpoint 1 at c:\users\jbucaran\desktop\demo2.rb:1
> > C:/Program Files/Ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/ubygems.rb:10: warning:
> > parenthesiz
> > e argument(s) for future version
> > C:/Program Files/Ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/ubygems.rb:10:compile erro=
r
> > C:/Program Files/Ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/ubygems.rb:10: syntax
> > error, unexpe
> > cted tIDENTIFIER, expecting $end
> > Set breakpoint 1 at c:\users\jbucaran\desktop\demo2.rb:1
> >                    ^
> > (rdb:1)
>
>
> It looks to me like the debugger is getting confused by the colon after C
> drive.
> The usage for the 'b' command: b[reak] [file:|class:]<line|method>
> See? You can specify a file and then a colon and the class etc. but the
> debugger is not expecting a colon in the path.
>
> Try just "b 1" to set a breakpoint on line 1.
>
> Les
>

Some tests show that this doesn't help you much.
And I see ruby-breakpoint is currently broken for Windows... sorry!

To be honest, I have never really used the debugger in Ruby, and most peopl=
e
I know don't use it either -
perhaps because of problems like this. I use ruby-breakpoint from time to
time on Linux. Other than that
I find that a few small unit tests and the occasional 'p variable; exit'
somewhere in my code are all I need to
figure out what the problem is.

Les

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