# Anyone get the Arachno Ruby debugger working? **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [April 16, 2007, 6:40am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/anyone-get-the-arachno-ruby-debugger-working/92104 "2007-04-16T06:40:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![eeby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/ecb155/32.png) [@eeby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/eeby)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2007, 6:40am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/anyone-get-the-arachno-ruby-debugger-working/92104/1 "2007-04-16T06:40:40Z")
I’ve downloaded a trial of Arachno Ruby and like it a lot. Code completion works exceptionally well compared to others I’ve tried and it’s a nice looking app. However, I can’t get the debugger to work. Anybody have any troubleshooting suggestions? Here’s my setup… Arachno Ruby 0.7.9 Ruby version downloaded from Arachno Ruby website (Scriptolutions Windows 1-click installer) Windows XP Pro Steps I’ve tried: Created a project with some code I’d previously written. Set a breakpoint. Started the debugger. Execution ran past the breakpoint without stopping. Arachno Ruby works with an alternate Ruby interpreter that enables faster debugging. I made sure that Arachno is working with that Ruby interpreter. After that didn’t work, I also tried latest Ruby that I downloaded from [Download Ruby](http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/). Got the same result. I set debugger “enable source file path mapping” and ran it again. After that I checked and found that there is nothing listed in “debugger file paths”. No paths listed. I tried every possible setting of “debugger quick mode” and “stop on first source code line”. Can anyone suggest any other troubleshooting steps to try? Any other settings to look at? I tried posting on the Arachno forum of course, but no answer so far so I thought I’d try here. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, E ---
**Author:** ![eeby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/ecb155/32.png) [@eeby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/eeby)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2007, 6:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/anyone-get-the-arachno-ruby-debugger-working/92104/2 "2007-04-16T18:06:07Z")
On Apr 16, 12:35 am, “Eeby” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: ---
**Author:** ![eeby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/ecb155/32.png) [@eeby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/eeby)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2007, 6:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/anyone-get-the-arachno-ruby-debugger-working/92104/3 "2007-04-16T18:26:09Z")
On Apr 16, 12:35 am, “Eeby” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Windows XP Pro > that didn’t work, I also tried latest Ruby that I downloaded fromhttp://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/. Got the same result. > > I tried posting on the Arachno forum of course, but no answer so far > so I thought I’d try here. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > > E I have the same setup that you have. The problem is that the Archono Ruby IDE’s debugger is one step behind the current version of the Ruby (should work fine with Ruby 1.8.4). My understand is that an updated debugger will not come out until a patch is made for Ruby 1.8.6 which fixes some critical bugs. I also tried Archono’ one-click installer but it did work quite as well as the standard one-click installer. I reverted to the standard one-click installer. When I run a script a script within the IDE, I get a dialog box stating that the advanced features of the IDE cannot be used with the interpreter ( ruby 1.8.6) and ask whether I want to continue. I take that this means that debugging is not available. ---
**Author:** ![eeby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/ecb155/32.png) [@eeby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/eeby)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2007, 7:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/anyone-get-the-arachno-ruby-debugger-working/92104/4 "2007-04-16T19:56:18Z")
On Apr 16, 9:23 am, “bbiker” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > On Apr 16, 12:35 am, “Eeby” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > > I’ve downloaded a trial of Arachno Ruby and like it a lot. Code > > completion works exceptionally well compared to others I’ve tried and > > it’s a nice looking app. However, I can’t get the debugger to work. > > Anybody have any troubleshooting suggestions? […] > When I run a script a script within the IDE, I get a dialog box > stating that the advanced features of the IDE cannot be used with the > interpreter ( ruby 1.8.6) and ask whether I want to continue. I take > that this means that debugging is not available. Thanks for the reply. So I can’t get debugging to work because, well it doesn’t work. I guess you’re probably right. I was hoping there was some setting somewhere I had missed. That’s too bad. Arachno is a really good product in a lot of ways. Maybe debugging will work in the next release. E ---
**Author:** ![eeby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/ecb155/32.png) [@eeby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/eeby)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2007, 5:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/anyone-get-the-arachno-ruby-debugger-working/92104/5 "2007-10-13T17:35:51Z")
Eeby wrote: > I’ve downloaded a trial of Arachno Ruby and like it a lot. Code > completion works exceptionally well compared to others I’ve tried and > it’s a nice looking app. However, I can’t get the debugger to work. > Anybody have any troubleshooting suggestions? > > Here’s my setup… > > Arachno Ruby 0.7.9 > Ruby version downloaded from Arachno Ruby website (Scriptolutions > Windows 1-click installer) > Windows XP Pro > > Steps I’ve tried: > > Created a project with some code I’d previously written. Set a > breakpoint. Started the debugger. Execution ran past the breakpoint > without stopping. > > Arachno Ruby works with an alternate Ruby interpreter that enables > faster debugging. > I made sure that Arachno is working with that Ruby interpreter. After > that didn’t work, I also tried latest Ruby that I downloaded from > [Download Ruby](http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/). Got the same result. > > I set debugger “enable source file path mapping” and ran it again. > After that I checked and found that there is nothing listed in > “debugger file paths”. No paths listed. > > I tried every possible setting of “debugger quick mode” and “stop on > first source code line”. > > Can anyone suggest any other troubleshooting steps to try? Any other > settings to look at? > > I tried posting on the Arachno forum of course, but no answer so far > so I thought I’d try here. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > > E I’ve had a similar experiance. At one point I was getting some support from the author, Lothar, as in this message: ----- Original Message ---- From: Lothar S. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) To: Kurt Robson [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) Cc: Lothar S. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) Sent: Wednesday, August 1, 2007 6:52:59 PM Subject: Re: Arachno Ruby - Debugger frequently getting stuck Hello Kurt, Wednesday, August 1, 2007, 4:44:34 AM, you wrote: > Sometimes it happens every time I enter a breakpoint and I spend a long time trying different things to get it to run through to the > breakpoint. I have not figured out what to do to consistantly get it unstuck. > Can you offer any suggestion or workaround? I know about the problem, but i haven’t found out why. It seems to be some kind of rails stuff that is setting paths values that Arachno can’t handle. I must say you have to wait until end of month. I’m making good progress now with the new version. Currently i’m working on my own (CGI/SCGI/Fast-CGI) capable HTTP server that will be embedded next. This should be done next week and then i can look at the problems - and learn more about Rails. The debugger needs a few huge changes and there are a lot of feature requests coming in during the last two years. ## I will contact you as soon as i have something to try out. But I did not hear back from Lothar and in the meantime, I upgraded gems and ruby and after that I cannot even get Arachno to run webrick. And I got no more support, and now the forums seems to be discontinued as well. So I have given up and my trial license expired. But I really liked the product, especially as it was very fast to open, and the debugger worked very nicely - when it worked. Last week, I installed NetBeans and managed to get their fast GUI debugger working. Pretty much worked as per the documentation. The IDE is a huge piece of software however, so I preferred Arachno due to being lighter weight. Anyone out there know how to get Arachno Ruby to work properly? Kurt