From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2010-07-16T05:22:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Triggernig the debugger

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 10:05 PM, Ralph Shnelvar <ralphs@dos32.com> wrote:
> Thursday, July 15, 2010, 1:47:08 PM, you wrote:
>
> RS> In Rails I can use the
> RS>   debugger
> RS> statement to trigger the debugger.
>
> RS> How can I do that in rdebug?  Is there a way other than setting breakpoints manually when the program starts?
>
> I found
>  http://bashdb.sourceforge.net/ruby-debug.html#SEC18
> and then placed
>
>  require 'rubygems'
>  require 'ruby-debug
>
> into the source ...
>
> but I still can't get the debugger to trigger.   I get the following messages ...
>
>
> f:\UltraDedup>ruby -r debug UltraDedup.rb
> Debug.rb
> Emacs support available.
>
> UltraDedup.rb:3:require 'fox16'
> (rdb:1) c
> F:/InstantRails-2.0-win/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/rational.rb:78: `undefined method `gcd' for Rational(1, 2):Rational' (NoMethodError)
>        from F:/InstantRails-2.0-win/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb:396:in `require'
>        from F:/InstantRails-2.0-win/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb:396
>        from UltraDedup.rb:4:in `require'
>        from UltraDedup.rb:4
> F:/InstantRails-2.0-win/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/rational.rb:78:    gcd = num.gcd(den)
> (rdb:1) c
> F:/InstantRails-2.0-win/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ruby-debug-0.9.3/cli/ruby-debug/processor.rb:17: warning: method redefined; discarding old interface=
> F:/InstantRails-2.0-win/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/debug.rb:945 DEBUGGER__.context.trace_func event, file, line, id, binding, klass
> (rdb:1)
>
>
>
> Any thoughts on how to trigger the debugger?
Exactly as you did, then you hit c for continue and that was what the
debugger did
try help to see how to step, trace, set breakpoints and some more
HTH
R.
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