# Rudebug 0.3.1 **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [January 7, 2007, 12:17am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rudebug-0-3-1/81298 "2007-01-07T00:17:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![skade](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@skade](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/skade)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2007, 12:17am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rudebug-0-3-1/81298/1 "2007-01-07T00:17:33Z")
Hi, I’m finally able to announce the release of rudebug, a debugging front-end for ruby-debug and other debugging libraries for Ruby. It is based on Glade and Ruby-GNOME2. It has support for stepping, you can type code into a code shell and instantly see the results. The source code which is being executed is displayed as well. There is syntax highlighting everywhere. You can browse the current context in a fairly powerful way through the object browser. You can also reference the object that is selected in the object browser in the code shell. You can debug locally as well as remotely. More information is available on the project home page. (Including a more detailed project description, install guide, use guide and explanation of the implementation.) Homepage: [Google Code Archive - Long-term storage for Google Code Project Hosting.](http://code.google.com/p/rudebug/) Screenshot: [All sizes | rudebug | Flickr - Photo Sharing!](http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=219160308&size=o) This was my project for last year’s Summer of Code. It should probably have been released earlier. I hope it is still useful to the Ruby community. Comments and feedback are highly welcome. Thanks for your attention! Kind regards, Florian G. ---
**Author:** ![skade](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@skade](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/skade)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2007, 7:45am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rudebug-0-3-1/81298/2 "2007-01-07T07:45:00Z")
Hi, > I’m finally able to announce the release of rudebug, a debugging > front-end for ruby-debug and other debugging libraries for Ruby. It is > based on Glade and Ruby-GNOME2. I am running the sample file you have on the wiki, but rudebug fails with the following traceback. I have ruby-gnome2 0.16. -Mitchell; undefined method `signal_connect' for nil:NilClass /usr//lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/libglade2.rb:105:in`guard\_source\_from\_gc’ /usr//lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/libglade2.rb:98:in `guard_sources_from_gc' /usr//lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/libglade2.rb:97:in`each’ /usr//lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/libglade2.rb:97:in `guard_sources_from_gc' /usr//lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rudebug-0.3.1/lib/rudebug/page.rb:9:in`initialize’ /usr//lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rudebug-0.3.1/lib/rudebug/page.rb:9:in `new' /usr//lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rudebug-0.3.1/lib/rudebug/page.rb:9:in`initialize’ /usr//lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rudebug-0.3.1/lib/rudebug/connect.rb:164:in `new' /usr//lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rudebug-0.3.1/lib/rudebug/connect.rb:164:in`on\_session’ /usr//lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rudebug-0.3.1/lib/rudebug/connection/ruby-debug.rb:99:in `call' /usr//lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rudebug-0.3.1/lib/rudebug/connection/ruby-debug.rb:99:in`connect’ /usr//lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rudebug-0.3.1/lib/rudebug/connect.rb:117:in `connect_to' /usr//lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rudebug-0.3.1/lib/rudebug/connect.rb:112:in`initialize’ /usr//lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rudebug-0.3.1/lib/rudebug/connect.rb:112:in `new' /usr//lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rudebug-0.3.1/lib/rudebug/connect.rb:112:in`connect\_to’ /usr//lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rudebug-0.3.1/lib/rudebug/connect.rb:106:in `on_connectdlg_button_clicked' /usr//lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/libglade2.rb:45:in`call’ /usr//lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/libglade2.rb:45:in `connect' /usr//lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rudebug-0.3.1/lib/rudebug/main.rb:62:in`call’ /usr//lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rudebug-0.3.1/lib/rudebug/main.rb:62:in `main' /usr//lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rudebug-0.3.1/lib/rudebug/main.rb:62 /usr//lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in`gem\_original\_require’ /usr//lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom\_require.rb:27:in `require' /usr//lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rudebug-0.3.1/lib/rudebug.rb:13 /usr//lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in`gem\_original\_require’ /usr//lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom\_require.rb:27:in `require' /usr//lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rudebug-0.3.1/bin/rudebug:4 /usr/bin/rudebug:18:in`load’ /usr/bin/rudebug:18 /usr//lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom\_require.rb: line 27 Gtk-CRITICAL \*\*:gtk\_notebook\_get\_tab\_label\_text: assertion `GTK\_IS\_WIDGET (child)’ failed ---
**Author:** ![skade](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@skade](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/skade)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2007, 5:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rudebug-0-3-1/81298/3 "2007-01-07T17:05:42Z")
On 2007-01-07 07:44:21 +0100, mitchell [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) said: > I am running the sample file you have on the wiki, but rudebug fails > with the following traceback. I have ruby-gnome2 0.16. > > -Mitchell; > > undefined method `signal_connect' for nil:NilClass /usr//lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/libglade2.rb:105:in `guard\_source\_from\_gc’ > /usr//lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/libglade2.rb:98:in `guard\_sources\_from\_gc’ Thanks for the report. That’s exactly the bug the workaround in gtk-patch.rb is for. However, I broke compatibility for ruby-gnome2 0.16 when restoring 0.14 compatibility by testing for the presence of guard\_source\_from\_gc(). Turns out method\_defined?() returns false for private methods. I’m now using defined?(). Simple fix for a dumb bug. I just released rudebug 0.3.2. Should be available via ‘gem update rudebug’ soon. I hope that one will work 100%. Sorry for all this. ---
**Author:** ![skade](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@skade](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/skade)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2007, 9:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rudebug-0-3-1/81298/4 "2007-01-07T21:31:14Z")
Hi Florian, > Thanks for the report. That’s exactly the bug the workaround in > gtk-patch.rb is for. However, I broke compatibility for ruby-gnome2 0.16 > when restoring 0.14 compatibility by testing for the presence of > guard\_source\_from\_gc(). Turns out method\_defined?() returns false for > private methods. I’m now using defined?(). Simple fix for a dumb bug. Same error. You need to change ‘if defined?..’ to ‘if private\_method\_defined?(:guard\_source\_from\_gc) then’ Only then will it work 😉 I will be playing with this. It looks much better than my debugger project where I haven’t found the time to pick it back up and integrate ruby-debug into. -Mitchell;