Metasploit-framework in a IDE with debugger

Ruby
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Hi,

1- I have a friend which will learn programming only if I find a way to
setup metasploit-framework in a IDE and a debugger,

2- I’m quite sure that metasploit is one of the biggest ruby program,

So my big question is : how would you debug metasploit ?

I’m quite sure that it wouldn’t be more complicated than :

gem install sommeDebuggerIDEname

and add sommeDebuggerIDEname::start() in metasploit-framework’s source
code at an intelligent place (probably at the beginning of msf/core.rb)

but because I downloaded ruby for the 1st time one week ago, I can’t
find it and I need help !

thank you very much for your advices (note that when you google
‘metasploit debugger’ you nearly don’t find anything)

reuns.

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I doubt any oldtime ruby users use metasploit.

It’s mostly a tool to attract inexperienced people.

but because I downloaded ruby for the 1st time one week ago,
I can’t find it and I need help !

If you can’t even find the project source page then this is
a good sign that you would be only wasting your time.

note that when you google ‘metasploit debugger’ you nearly
don’t find anything

Even google knows how a hopeless waste of time it is for
everyone to google for metasploit.

On the topic of IDEs, you don’t need an IDE in ruby.

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If you start like this, then ruby is itself mostly a tool to attract
inexperienced people :

python has so much more users and features, that choosing Ruby is
completly crazy when you know what implies using such an un-common
language.

so my question was :

how would you add a good debugger to a big ruby software ?

(interpreted languages should be easy to debug and to inspect at
runtime, so I won’t be satisfied of a minimal debugger)

thank you for you help !

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now, I’m quite sure that I should tell metasploit to launch pry
instead of ruby (with pry-stack_explorer !! wtf is that debugger which
doesn’t come at first with a callstack inspector…),

is there a better (non-console?) debugger for ruby ?

(like the chrome or firefox javascript debugger)