From: Roger Pack <rogerdpack2@...>
Date: 2013-01-11T02:43:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby-debug and Windows 7

On 1/10/13, John Sampson <jrs.idx@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> On 10/01/2013 14:44, Roger Pack wrote:
>> On 12/28/12, John Sampson <jrs.idx@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>>> On 28/12/2012 10:10, Rocky Bernstein wrote:
>>>> ruby-debug on Windows and 1.9.x is a problem many people have. If you
>>>> want strictly ruby-debug for Ruby 1.9.x the package you are looking for
>>>> is ruby-debug19, not ruby-debug.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> [snip]
>>>
>>> Thanks for the info.
>>>
>>> Ruby-debug19 doesn't install either.
>>
>> failure message?
>>
>>> I don't necessarily want ruby-debug but it is the debugger covered in
>>> the Pickaxe book
>>> which describes Ruby 1.9.
>>>
>>> Perhaps Windows programmers are seen as too intelligent to need
>>> debuggers.
>>>
>>> Meanwhile, is DevKit-4.5.0-20100819-1536-sfx.exe an appropriate version
>>> for
>>> the current version of Ruby? I downloaded it from a third-party website.
>> That should work, you can get a slightly newer version at
>> rubyinstaller.org
>>
>>
>>
> This was some time ago, so I have forgotten what the failure message was.
>
> Thanks for the info about Devkit.
>
> I didn't pursue the matter of the debugger - for me the complexities of
> getting a Ruby debugger
> working on Windows 7 would be more trouble than they were worth.
>
> Not having invested heavily in Ruby, I aim to move to a programming
> environment that has a working debugger. This of course reflects my
> particular aims and
> circumstances.

Yes, it "should" just work, sorry for the run around in this case.