# Debugging in Ruby 1.9.1

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/debugging-in-ruby-1-9-1/170641>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [June 20, 2009, 12:30am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/debugging-in-ruby-1-9-1/170641 "2009-06-20T00:30:42Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 12:30am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/debugging-in-ruby-1-9-1/170641/1 "2009-06-20T00:30:42Z")

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Is it possible to carry out debugging in Ruby 1.9.1? Doesn’t seem to be  
too much info out on the web about it. If not, is a debugger planned  
soon?

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**Author:** ![theirishpenguin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@theirishpenguin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/theirishpenguin)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 1:13am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/debugging-in-ruby-1-9-1/170641/2 "2009-06-20T01:13:55Z")

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Declan Mcgrath wrote:

> Is it possible to carry out debugging in Ruby 1.9.1? Doesn’t seem to be  
> too much info out on the web about it. If not, is a debugger planned  
> soon?

I can tell you this much: the ruby-debug gem won’t install on 1.9, last  
I checked, which keeps me from using 1.9. The built-in debugger (for  
which ruby-debug is a wrapper, as it were, and a nice one) works, I  
would imagine. No personal experience with it though.

I haven’t heard anything from anyone associated with the ruby-debug gem  
re: getting a 1.9 version running. I really wish it would happen.

Tom

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**Author:** ![theirishpenguin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@theirishpenguin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/theirishpenguin)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 11:05am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/debugging-in-ruby-1-9-1/170641/3 "2009-06-22T11:05:21Z")

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> Is it possible to carry out debugging in Ruby 1.9.1? Doesn’t seem to be  
> too much info out on the web about it. If not, is a debugger planned  
> soon?

Currently you’re basically stuck with using “-rdebug”  
[http://betterlogic.com/roger/?p=1158](http://betterlogic.com/roger/?p=1158)  
Cheers!  
-=r