# Ruby-debug 0.9.3 and Rails 2rc1: falls directly to irb

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-debug-0-9-3-and-rails-2rc1-falls-directly-to-irb/121267>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [November 26, 2007, 10:25am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-debug-0-9-3-and-rails-2rc1-falls-directly-to-irb/121267 "2007-11-26T10:25:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![enduro](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/5f8ce5/32.png) [@enduro](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/enduro)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2007, 10:25am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-debug-0-9-3-and-rails-2rc1-falls-directly-to-irb/121267/1 "2007-11-26T10:25:56Z")

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Hi

When starting my Rails 2rc1 app with “script/server --debugger”, the  
console falls directly into irb once a “debugger” statement is  
encountered.

Any idea what I have to do in order to be thrown into the debugger  
rather than irb?

Many thanks, -sven

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**Author:** ![enduro](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/5f8ce5/32.png) [@enduro](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/enduro)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2007, 10:32am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-debug-0-9-3-and-rails-2rc1-falls-directly-to-irb/121267/2 "2007-11-26T10:32:22Z")

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Figured it out: The app was created with a stable Rails release.  
Re-building it from 2rc1 scratch fixed this issue.

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**Author:** ![enduro](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/5f8ce5/32.png) [@enduro](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/enduro)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2007, 10:37am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-debug-0-9-3-and-rails-2rc1-falls-directly-to-irb/121267/3 "2007-11-26T10:37:56Z")

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With this fixed, here’s a little followup:

.rdebugrc is not read with Rails 2rc1. Any other way of passing default  
settings to the debugger, maybe in environment/development.rb?