From: Paul Brannan <paul@...>
Date: 2002-03-01T00:40:20+09:00
Subject: Re: OT  A Question on work styles

On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 11:08:25PM +0900, Chris Gehlker wrote:
> Don't ask me. I don't see the need for Ruby debuggers yet either. Ruby
> itself makes it so easy to see what's happening.

Debuggers are useful for determining paths of execution.  I also find
them useful for determining what is going wrong in an already executing
program (e.g. I have a server that suddenly stops responding and begins
to each 100% CPU; I can gdb that process, get a stack trace, and debug,
without having to add debug output, recompile, re-run, reproduce, and
interpret the output).  Being able to do this in Ruby would be very
useful.

Paul