From: Tom Cloyd <tomcloyd@...>
Date: 2009-06-18T08:58:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Stepping Through Ruby

Ben Lovell wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Mike Stephens <rubfor@recitel.net> wrote:
>
>   
>> In VBA you can step through the code and at any point examine all the
>> state. Is there any similar facility for Ruby?
>> --
>> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>>
>>
>>     
> There is a debugger for ruby which you use through the shell. There's a
> pretty good run through of it over at railscasts.com:
>
> http://railscasts.com/episodes/54-debugging-with-ruby-debug
>
> Take a look.
>
> Ben
>
>   
and...unfortunately, the gem version of it - ruby-debug, which is much 
more usable than the built in version, doesn't work with 1.9. Sigh.

t.

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