# Debugger stopped working

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/debugger-stopped-working/183783>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [February 20, 2010, 1:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/debugger-stopped-working/183783 "2010-02-20T01:07:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![acreadinglist](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/ccd318/32.png) [@acreadinglist](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/acreadinglist)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2010, 1:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/debugger-stopped-working/183783/1 "2010-02-20T01:07:44Z")

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script/server --debug and script/server --debugger lead to an error.  
Despite just uninstalling and reinstalling rails and ruby-debug. It  
worked 3 days ago.

> > :~/Workspace/my\_app$ sudo gem1.8 install rails  
> > Successfully installed rails-2.3.5  
> > 1 gem installed  
> > Installing ri documentation for rails-2.3.5…  
> > Installing RDoc documentation for rails-2.3.5…  
> > :~/Workspace/my\_app$ sudo gem1.8 install ruby-debug  
> > Successfully installed ruby-debug-0.10.3  
> > 1 gem installed  
> > Installing ri documentation for ruby-debug-0.10.3…  
> > Installing RDoc documentation for ruby-debug-0.10.3…  
> > :~/Workspace/my\_app$ script/server --debug  
> > =\> Booting WEBrick  
> > =\> Rails 2.3.5 application starting on [http://0.0.0.0:3000](http://0.0.0.0:3000)  
> > You need to install ruby-debug to run the server in debugging mode.  
> > With gems, use ‘gem install ruby-debug’

Any suggestions?

Thanks,  
Andrew