# IronRuby & Microsoft.Scripting.Debugging

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ironruby-microsoft-scripting-debugging/192554>\
**Category:** IronRuby\
**Created:** [August 2, 2010, 12:36am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ironruby-microsoft-scripting-debugging/192554 "2010-08-02T00:36:23Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![valdar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/b5a626/32.png) [@valdar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/valdar)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2010, 12:36am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ironruby-microsoft-scripting-debugging/192554/1 "2010-08-02T00:36:23Z")

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Hello,

What is the current plan for supporting Microsoft.Scripting.Debugging  
in IronRuby? I’d like to implement ruby-debug-base, so I may  
eventually get to ruby-debug-ide (IR support in RubyMine, woot!).

Could IronRuby perhaps expose an ITracePipeline instance? That alone\*  
would provide most of the debug functionality needed (set next line,  
trace callbacks). Peeking into the scope could easily accomplished  
using the RubyContext, I think.

Should I open a ticket on CodePlex for this? I couldn’t find anything  
related using the search.

-Charles

- Of course, IronRuby would also have to use a DebugContext instance  
to rewrite the expression trees to make them debuggable, among other  
things. I’m not saying it wouldn’t be a lot of work 🙂

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**Author:** ![valdar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/b5a626/32.png) [@valdar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/valdar)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2010, 4:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ironruby-microsoft-scripting-debugging/192554/2 "2010-08-02T04:01:18Z")

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There is no plan for that other than that we want to do that at some  
point 🙂

Tomas

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**Author:** ![valdar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/b5a626/32.png) [@valdar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/valdar)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2010, 5:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ironruby-microsoft-scripting-debugging/192554/3 "2010-08-02T17:51:26Z")

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Cool 🙂

-Charles

On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 8:53 PM, Tomas M.