From: RichardOnRails <RichardDummyMailbox58407@...>
Date: 2008-03-29T11:20:06+09:00
Subject: Re: First use of debugger weird

On Mar 24, 10:16 pm, RichardOnRails
<RichardDummyMailbox58...@uscomputergurus.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just wrote a toy program:
> K:\_Projects\Ruby\_Ruby_Techniques\Debugging\Test2.rb
>
> I invoked the debugger with:
> ruby -rdebug K:/_Projects/Ruby/_Ruby_Techniques/Debugging/Test2.rb
>
> I got 5 lines (counting blank lines)
> Debug.rb
> Emacs support available.
>
> K:/_Utilities/ruby186-26_rc2/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/ubygems.rb:
> 10:require 'rubygems'
> (rdb:1)
>
> I gave the command "list 5" and got:
> (rdb:1) list 5
> [0, 9] in K:/_Utilities/ruby186-26_rc2/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/
> ubygems.rb
>    1  # This file allows for the running of rubygems with a nice
>    2  # command line look-and-feel: ruby -rubygems foo.rb
>    3  #--
>    4  # Copyright 2006 by Chad Fowler, Rich Kilmer, Jim Weirich and
> others.
>    5  # All rights reserved.
>    6  # See LICENSE.txt for permissions.
>    7  #++
>    8
>    9
> (rdb:1)
>
> Apparently,  it gave me the first lines of debug.rb rather than the
> first lines of the program I'm trying to process with the debugger:
> Test2.rb.
>
> I used https://www6.software.ibm.com/developerworks/education/os-distruby/se...
> as a guide,  and it suggested that the debugging would start with the
> subject program.
>
> What am I doing wrong?  I'm running ruby186-26_rc2 over WinXP-Pro/SP2.
>
> Thanks in Advance,
> Richard

Apparently, there's little or no interest in the Ruby debugger.

Happily,  I found the rdebug plug-in.  It works the way I expected.