From: Stephen Schor <beholdthepanda@...>
Date: 2007-12-21T13:41:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Good Ruby IDE for Debian Linux?

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ruby-debug (http://rubyforge.org/projects/ruby-debug/) does the bulk of what
you'd expect in
a debugger.  (step into, step over, watch...etc)

Some other nice walk-throughs include:
  http://www.datanoise.com/articles/2006/07/12/tutorial-on-ruby-debug
  http://cheat.errtheblog.com/s/rdebug/ (cheatsheet)


-Stephen



On Dec 20, 2007 11:24 PM, Nei Kai <mailxiening@gmail.com> wrote:

> I, too, don't think it's important to use IDE to edit/input ruby code,
> vim is good enough.
> But how do you guys debug ruby code?  log/puts, or the native debug
> option of ruby command?
> Could anybody recommend some  debugger  for  vim user?
>
> Best  regards.
> ning
>
> 2007/12/21, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <znmeb@cesmail.net>:
> >
> > Marc Heiler wrote:
> > >> I'm wondering what IDEs are out there for Ruby in the Linux world?
> > >> Anyone want to make some recommendations?
> > >
> > > I think you might well survive without any IDE for Ruby. It's not as
> if
> > > you absolutely need a complicated IDE - ruby done right is terse and
> > > readable.
> > > IDEs have some advantages but I found them all to have disadvantages,
> > > if only the level of complexity you need to understand with
> > > them - i remember when i first was presented to do a "projects" file
> > > with netbeans :)
> >
> > Well ... I like Komodo. In general, I don't think single-person projects
> > need an IDE, nor do I think pair programmers who are well synchronized
> > in thinking do. A more heterogeneous project team, on the other hand,
> > has a *lot* to gain by using a *common* IDE and set of coding standards.
> >
> > That said, an awful lot of Rubyists are wedded to MacOS and TextMate. :)
> >
> >
> >
>

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