# HELP! debugger broken

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-debugger-broken/128200>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [February 5, 2008, 8:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-debugger-broken/128200 "2008-02-05T20:52:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![scottd72](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/58f4c7/32.png) [@scottd72](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/scottd72)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2008, 8:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-debugger-broken/128200/1 "2008-02-05T20:52:14Z")

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This is really killing me!!!

I reinstalled everything below from scratch

Linux Puppy 3.00  
Ruby 1.8.6  
Rails 2.0.2  
ruby-debug 0.10.0  
mongrel 1.1.3  
mysql 5.0

added “debugger” to a line in a controllor

started mongrel  
brought up web page in firefox that would call the function in the  
controllor that has debugger in it. The browser hangs indicating it has  
hit a breakpoint

the console then displays

/home/scott/NetBeansProjects/webmonitor/app/controllers/driller\_controller.rb:14  
@drillerschoice = “choice”

which is right after the line with “debugger”

I get no (rdb:xx) debugger prompt and if I press any key I get a  
message that mongrel has stopped.

in the development log

Processing DrillerController#index (for 127.0.0.1 at 2008-02-02  
13:59:34) [GET]  
Session ID: fc1bf7ce7ba6669f9570a9812302d4dc  
Parameters: {“action”=\>“index”, “controller”=\>“driller”}  
SQL (0.000189) SET SQL\_AUTO\_IS\_NULL=0  
Driller Columns (0.001163) SHOW FIELDS FROM `drillers`  
Processing DrillerController#index (for 127.0.0.1 at 2008-02-02  
14:06:08) [GET]  
Session ID: 05bdd2c0a0e7d34913a48d0195c4412a  
Parameters: {“action”=\>“index”, “controller”=\>“driller”}

nothing in the log to indicate a problem?

It looks like I need to debug mongrel or debugger but not sure how…

Scott

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