From: r <rocky.bernstein@...>
Date: 2007-08-16T19:04:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby debuggers?

On Aug 12, 11:45 pm, "Wayne E. Seguin" <wayneeseg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Aug 12, 2007, at 22:34 , Jim Phillips wrote:
>
>
>
> > I am far enough into learning Ruby so that I need to track down
> > problems
> > that can't be solved just by examining the source.  So far I have been
> > using the built-in debugger that comes with Ruby, which works fine,
> > but
> > has all the drawbacks of the Perl debugger - i.e., it is command line
> > driven and slow.
>
> > I prefer the command line on most stuff except for debugging. There
> > just
> > isn't enough room for data to fit on the screen and what is there
> > scrolls
> > off fast.  Piping it to an editor or file captures everything, but
> > that
> > requires another operation to inspect and is always after-the-fact.
>
> > Perl has a great little tool in the ptkdb debugger that is a gui and
> > lets you grasp a much bigger part of the problem you are trying to
> > solve
> > and in real time, so to speak. Alas, while TK works with Ruby
> > pretty good,
> > the debug tool doesn't.
>
> > Question.  Is there a more sophisticated troubleshooting tool for Ruby
> > available yet (for Linux)?  I been googling without much luck so far,
> > although on a 24k dialup it may be several months before I get to the
> > bottom of the list.  (In this part of the country you have to pay AT&T
> > extra for broadband - that is to say, 56k dialup).
>
> > Thanks all
> > Jum Phillips
>
> Command line:http://rubyforge.org/projects/ruby-debugother than
> that, ?
>
>    ~Wayne

I suppose apropos of nothing in particular I'll mention that the
version of ruby-debug in SVN (tentatively scheduled as the version
0.9.4) has a number of changes, many of towards the command-line
aspect which make this more gdb-like. I've been working on user manual
and guide which right now (again tentatively) can be found at
http://bashdb.sf.net/ruby-debug.html . Be warned however if you follow
that link or look a that guide that there are a number of features in
it that are not in 0.9.3.