Debug tool?

Ruby
1

I just started Ruby so I am not going to ask any dumb howto questions
(yet) but am looking for some information that googling is not getting
(and a 24k dialup line isn’t helping much, either)

With Perl I use the wonderful graphical debugger ptkdb even though most
of
my Perl coding is not graphical. But I wouldn’t consider programming in
perl on any system that doesn’t have it - whether or not I am using TK.

My first test was to see if it worked with Ruby. I had some very small
hopes when I saw the statement that Ruby can use TK. But alas no, ptkdb
doesn’t.

So, anybody know of a graphical debugger for (Linux) Ruby yet? I know
it
comes with a built in tool just like Perl, but I don’t like it any
better
than I like the native Perl job.

Thanks
krf

2

You can use RDT for eclipse, which has a decent graphical debugger for
plain Ruby. Does not work for debugging Rails applications yet.

There is also the ruby-debug gem (gem install ruby-debug), which
provides a very fast - currently only text-based - debugger.

Max

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On Wed, 16 Aug 2006 10:12:01 +0900, Max M. wrote:

You can use RDT for eclipse, which has a decent graphical debugger for
plain Ruby. Does not work for debugging Rails applications yet.

There is also the ruby-debug gem (gem install ruby-debug), which
provides a very fast - currently only text-based - debugger.

Max

Thanks. I am still looking. I got spoiled by Perl which is native to
Linux and doesn’t require installing, and TK, which I had to have a
broadband friend download, but is now safely on a CD and runs on ANY
fairly current Linux without demanding that I download the library of
the
month.

I found RDT but it is out of the question for a while. RDT requires
EclipseSDK which requires JavaSDK which requires (for a dialup user)
somewhere around 14 months of download time.

And mr_guid which is very small but requires gtk2 and libeglade2. I
have long since learned to hate gtk since they seem to change libraries
at
every change of the moon, and those changes require new sub libs which
require new sub/sub libs and - well, back in my RedHat days it was
properly known as dependency hell. Again, no way for a dialup user.

Anachrid looks promising so I think I will have the friend get it for me
to try. Hopefully tomorrow.

Ah! To live in a area closer than a thousand miles to a broadband
hookup.
Must be wonderful. (Sigh).

krf